Date: 1900-1950
Period: Roaring Twenties/pre WW2
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Detective/crime/Mystery
tropes: Hard-boiled, Pulp
Lenght: Lenghty
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Reception: Classic
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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