'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the
best' THE TIMES Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern
detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated
hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was
his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories,
which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best
examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable
literary and moral imagination is already operating at full
strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working
for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton
Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of
violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.
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