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contents
  1. Arson Plus
  2. Crooked Souls
  3. Slippery Fingers
  4. It
  5. Bodies Piled Up
  6. The Tenth Clue
  7. Night Shots
  8. Zigzags of Treachery
  9. One Hour
  10. The House in Turk Street
  11. The Girl with the Silver Eyes
  12. Women, Politics & Murder
  13. The Golden Horseshoe
  14. Who Killed Bob Teal?
  15. Mike or Alec or Rufus
  16. The Whosis Kid
  17. The Scorched Face
  18. Corkscrew
  19. Dead Yellow Women
  20. The Gutting of Couffignal
  21. Creeping Siamese
  22. The Big Knock-Over
  23. $106,000 Blood Money
  24. The Main Death
  25. This King Business
  26. Flypaper
  27. The Farewell Murder
  28. Death and Company
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Continental Op Stories

Dashiell Hammett

free · 311,281 words · ~21 h read

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  • The Dain Curse
    Messier than The Maltese Falcon, honestly, three cases stitched together with a cult, stolen diamonds, and a supposed family curse. But the Continental Op talking Gabrielle through her morphine withdrawal is Hammett at his most quietly decent, and worth the pulpy detours to reach.
  • The Maltese Falcon
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Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

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