The Tenth Clew and Other Cases for the Continental Op (Annotated and Illustrated): Four Novelettes and Five Stories(2020)
Dashiell Hammett
• The introduction of this eBook reviews briefly Dashiell Hammett as a writer and the stories of the Continental Op, one of his most enduring creation, published in “Black Mask” and “True Detective” in 1924 and later published as book collections. The eBook is illustrated with all magazine covers, selected book covers, and other illustrations.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. He created many well-known characters such as Sam Spade (“The Maltese Falcon”), Nick and Nora Charles (“The Thin Man”), and the Continental Op, a never named insurance investigator (“Red Harvest,” “The Dain Curse,” and numerous short stories).
Hammett is widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time. “The New York Times,” called him “the dean of the hardboiled school of detective fiction,” although, technically, John Carroll Daly was the first to write a story in the hardboiled style and to create, with Terry Mack and Race Williams, the first hardboiled private eyes.
This eBook contains four novelettes and five stories, all, except the last one, published in “Black Mask”: “The Tenth Clew” (“The Tenth Clue”) (novelette), “Night Shots” (story), “Zigzags of Treachery” (story), “One Hour” (story), “The House in Turk Street” (story), “The Girl with Silver Eyes” (novelette), “Women, Politics and Murder” (“Death on Pine Street”) (novelette), “The Golden Horseshoe” (novelette), and “Who Killed Bob Teal?” (story).
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2/12/2020
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