The Continental Op: complete Classic of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction

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The Continental Op: complete Classic of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction
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Before Sam Spade, before Philip Marlowe, before Mike Hammer, before Lew Archer, and before nearly every hard-boiled detective in mystery fiction, there was the Continental Op.

Who was he? No one knows, since Dashiell Hammett never gives his name. Through these two dozen stories we see the Op solve crimes, usually murder, while being shot at, assaulted, and dishing out punishment better than he receives it.

This collection includes the very first Continental Op story, “Arson Plus”.

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