The Big Knockover and Other Stories
by Dashiell Hammett.
Published by Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Published 1981.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0140029419
ISBN-13: 978-0140029413
Description:
Nine short stories.
Includes the unfinished novel, Tulip, and a memoir by Lillian Hellman. 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.
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