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Name: The Big Knockover

Author: Dashiell Hammett
Year: 1972
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Genres/categories: Mystery, Short Stories, Classic, Detective

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ISBN:
9780679722595
0679722599
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.

Contents:
Introduction by Lillian Hellman
The Gutting of Couffignal
Fly Paper
The Scorched Face
The King Business
The Gatewood Caper
Dead Yellow Women
Corkscrew
Tulip
The Big Knockover
$106,000 Blood Money
About the author:
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

This book is part of the "The Continental Op" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Red Harvest
First published 1929
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The Dain Curse
First published 1929
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The Continental Op
First published 1930
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Nightmare Town
First published 1999
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