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 The Big Knockover - Dashiell Hammett
 The Big Knockover - Dashiell Hammett ... 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.Newest Review: ... of short stories entitled The Continental Op. Most of the stories are what would be expected from Hammett’s work – stories of ... more ... wealthy families becoming involved with the city’s low life. There are some stories that stand out though. Corkscrew sees the Continental Op (whose name we are never told) sent out to a small town in the Arizona desert to sort out the lawlessness and having to use his wits in an alien environment. In The King Business, he travels to Muravia, a Balkan state, where he becomes involved in a political coup where the army want to take control of the state. And in Dead Yellow Women, he becomes involved in the Chinese commu...more |
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The Big Knockover - Dashiell Hammett: Short stories from the author of The Maltese Falcon (980 words)
by - written on 04/07/06 (Very useful, 109 readings)
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Introduction Best-known for his novel The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett is one of the godfathers of hardboiled crime. Perhaps because of everyone’s high opinion of The Maltese Falcon, I was surprised to be rather disappointed by it, feeling that it was overly complicated. So I wasn’t particularly inspired to read anything else by him…until I managed to pick this book up in a charity shop for a mere 50p (I couldn’t turn down something by a classic author at that price!). I didn’t at first realise that it was a collection of short stories; in fact it was only when I started reading the second chapter and noticed that all the characters had changed that I realised. ... Read the complete review
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