Read Series: The Continental Op Short Stories
by Author Dashiell Hammett
Book
Nightmare Town (2002)
It was a necessary train ride, off the eastcoast grid to the center of the rust belt. It was a necessary six hours, even before whistle-stops and unexplained lulls were counted in. After a high-proof holiday and a few sleepless celebrations, the ride back to college was generally comfortable and...
Book
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (1989)
I read this as a follow-up to reading The Continental Op, which I enjoyed very much. This volume includes eight more stories featuring the Op, as well as an unfinished novel, Tulip. The Op's stories were great, as I expected. I thought that with some of these stories, Hammett seemed to be play...