The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

by Dashiell Hammett

2021-01-02 09:07:37

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 enthus... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.02 X 5.2 X 1.05 in
Print pages480
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date July 17, 1989
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679722595
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – Jan 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring ...

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