The Continental Op – The Novels by Dashiell Hammett

Book Details

The Big Knockover (1927) – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.

But soon enough, the bodies started turning up. Bullet-riddled messes, scattered like trash in the back alleys. Robbers who thought they were in on the score. Seems the brains behind the operation had other plans—he wasn’t splitting the take with anyone. The loot? All his. And when you play the game that cold, there’s always a price to pay.

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Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories is the original set of four stories from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.

Personville, AKA Poisonville, was being run by four gangs that were brought in to quell a labor strike but then decided to stay and set up shop. The dead man was a reformist newspaper editor who seems to have got in the way of the gangs. Add to that a corrupt and compromised police department and Hammett has given us a recipe for murders, frameups, ambushes and a massive gang war.

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The Dain Curse (1929) – A destructive fate pursues Gabrielle Leggett wherever she goes; it annihilates her home, penetrates into the new thought temple where she takes refuge, brings her wedding-trip to a tragic end, and drives her to the verge of insanity.

Following the girl’s amazing career by devious and unprecedented ways of his own, the Continental Op succeeds in vanquishing the curse that hangs over Gabrielle’s head and corners what is perhaps one of the most remarkable criminals in fiction.

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If bought individually these three novels would cost $14.50.

Files:

1. Hammett-TheBigKnockover.epub
2. Hammett-RedHarvest.epub
3. Hammett-TheDainCurse.epub