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Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.

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1. The Tenth Clew - Damn, that's a lot of red herrings. The murder was transparently a fake, and that Madden wouldn't actually be her brother was evident, but the way the eleme...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 14:48:43 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 19:48:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Jan 09 09:39:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 09:59:17 -0800 2009 Golden Horseshoe, when Kewpie draws a knife from her garter and throws it through the heavy's throat before being ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 19 10:39:42 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 07:07:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 05:14:10 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 05:18:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 05:02:19 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:38:55 -0700 2009
The OP is so different from other Noir PI's and not o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Sun Apr 26 13:17:25 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:23:03 -0700 2009 3
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Favorite paragraph:
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Some of the plots were a little too far-fetched as to be plausible but, as Hammett left out the ridiculous and exotic manners of death often employed in such stories, the...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=30004