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A carregar... The Continental Op (1945)por Dashiell Hammett
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I felt like doing a reread of some Hammett, and I found this PB and realized I haven't read much of the Continental Op stuff. There are, it turns out, 36 Continental Op stories. This is a nice core sample of 7 . The formula with the detective protagonist in the middle of a a group of foreign villians, thick headed thugs, and femme fatales, engaged in some collective adversarial villainy as in The Maltese Falcon, is something that appears with some frequency. Terse, evocative prose -fun engaging stories. I'll hunt down the rest when I get a chance. 1 - The Tenth Clew - Mr Leopold Gantvoort had arranged a meeting with the Continental Op for 9.00pm at his home. The Op arrives on time, but Mr Gantvoort fails to appear, after waiting several hours and just as he was leaving a call to house informs his son Charles that his father is dead. But why are there so many clues. The Continental Op and Detective O'Gar investigate. 2 - The Golden Horseshoe - Attorney Vance Richmond wants him to find missing Englishman Norman Ashcraft for wealthy Mrs Ashcraft 3 - The House in Turk Street - While looking for a man in Turk Street, what does the Continental Op stumble into. 4 - The Girl with the Silver Eyes - The Continental Op is called out of bed one Sunday morning to visit a Burke Pangburn. He states, eventually, that his fiancee Jeanne Delano is missing. Of course the case is not as straightforward as it at first seems. 5 - The Whosis Kid - after the kid is pointed out to him in 1917 as a suspected gunman, it is not until 1925 that he sees him again. The Continental Op decides to follow him. He's known as Arthur Cory or Carey. And follows him into a lot of trouble. 6 - The Main Death - Continental Op is employed by a Bruno Gungen to discover who killed his associate Jeffrey Main and robbed him of Gungen's $20,000. 7 - The Farewell Murder - He is hired by a Mr Kavalov because Hugh Sherry has threatened that he will die. An enjoyable re-read of a collection of short mystery stories sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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'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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Having only been acquainted with Hammett's polished novel length famous heroes, these rough-edged curt men somehow feel more appealing, like a revelation of the real everyday world of these detectives, rather than just being associated with their high profile, once-in-a-lifetime cases. Will be seeking out even more Hammetts now. ( )