The Continental Op-1928
About this ebook
Dynamite
The Cleansing of Poisonville.
A novelette in nine chapters.
The 19th Murder
The Continental detective cleans up.
A novelette in twelve chapters.
This King Business
The desire to rule is inherent in the breasts of most of us, notwithstanding the number of thrones that have toppled in the past decade. Mr. Hammett tells us of the strange series of events which led an American youth to seek kingship in “the Powder Magazine of Europe”—the Balkans. The consequences were—to put it mildly—exciting.
Chapter I – “Yes”—and “No”
Chapter II – Romaine
Chapter III – Shadowing
Chapter IV – Introductions
Chapter V – A Flogging
Chapter VI – Cards On The Table
Chapter VII – Lionel’s Plans
Chapter VIII – An Enlightening Interview
Chapter IX – Conjectures
Chapter X – Einarson In Control
Chapter XI – A Romantic Interlude
Chapter XII – The Night Before
Chapter XIII – Progress Goes “Betune”
Chapter XIV – Coronation
Chapter XV – Bargain Hunters
Chapter XVI – Lionel Rex
Chapter XVII – Mob Law
Black Lives
The Dain Curse (Part 1)
A novelette in six chapters
The Hollow Temple
The Dain Curse (Part 2)
A novelette in seven chapters
About the author
In his obituary in The New York Times, Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was described as “the dean of the… ‘hard-boiled’ school of detective fiction.”
Hammett is remembered for writing some of the seminal novels of crime fiction: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Thin Man, and The Maltese Falcon.
Hammett began writing the Continental Op stories in 1923 and continued writing them until 1930. He wrote thirty-six Continental Op stories in all.
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