The Continental Op-1928

Dashiell Hammett

2024年5月 · www.PulpFictionBook.Store

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1928 was a seminal year for Dashiell Hammett. He ended the series of stories known as the Poisonville stories that were later turned into the novel “Red Harvest.” Later in the year he began the series of stories that were turned into the novel “The Dain Curse.” In between those two series, Hammett sent his Op to the Balkans to babysit a naive rich boy who thought he might become a king by backing a coup – a lesser known comic opera done in Hammett’s inimitable style….

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

作者简介

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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