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Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett
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Jim Tarr picked up the cigar I rolled across his desk, looked at the band, bit off an end, and reached for a match.
"Fifteen cents straight," he said. "You must want me to break a couple of laws for you this time."
I had been doing business with this fat sheriff of Sacramento County for four or five years—ever since I came to the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office—and I had never known him to miss an opening for a sour crack; but it didn't mean anything.
"Wrong both times," I told him. "I get two of them for a quarter; and I'm here to do you a favor instead of asking for one. The company that insured Thornburgh's house thinks somebody touched it off."
"Fifteen cents straight," he said. "You must want me to break a couple of laws for you this time."
I had been doing business with this fat sheriff of Sacramento County for four or five years—ever since I came to the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office—and I had never known him to miss an opening for a sour crack; but it didn't mean anything.
"Wrong both times," I told him. "I get two of them for a quarter; and I'm here to do you a favor instead of asking for one. The company that insured Thornburgh's house thinks somebody touched it off."
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A collection of stories featuring Hammett's nameless, cynical operative for the Continental Detective Agency, originally published in Black Mask magazine through the 1920s. Terse, fast-moving, and morally grey, these stories laid the groundwork for the hard-boiled style Hammett would perfect in his novels.
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