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The Continental Op has been summoned to the grim mining town of Personville by town boss Elihu Wilson to pin the murder of his son on a rival gang. But when the Op finds that the killing was one of Passion, he takes his fee and uses it to set one group of crooks against another. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/?sæmj??l d???i?l ?hæm?t/; May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) , Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man) , and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) .In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Unknown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
