- Taschenbuch: 480 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: New ed. (17. Juli 1989)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679722599
- ISBN-13: 978-0679722595
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 12,8 x 1,1 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 302.977 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.
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Short fictional works by the modern American writer explore the world of crime and violence, mysterious women, and hard-hitting private detectives.
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Irresistible stories, expertly selected & introduced by Lillian Hellman. More compelling even than the other Hammett short stories collection, "The Continental Op" - which features a more conventional foreword & introductory remarks. Stories here are of a great variety, also of a wide timespan; and one of the best, I think, is the one "straight" story in the volume, 'Tulip': this is less hard-boiled than fascinating (if left in a fragmented form). All in all, one of the 20th century classics - not just in terms of classic mysteries, but of world literature; it can certainly compete with Hammett's finest novels such as "The Glass Key" or the similarly offbeat (since humorous) "The Thin Man".
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If you want to see Hammett playing around with the boundaries of his genre, read this book. It is great to see him give us the hard-boiled western, for example. One of the tales provides a glimpse at Hammett's life in his late 50's; its a rather weird autobiographical fragment. The rest are tightly packed knockouts.
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Hammetts Continental Op loves his work, and his work
is manhunting. In this collection of short stories, he goes
up against Chinese gangsters, Balkan revolutionaries,
cowboys and more than a couple of spunky dames. This is
classic Hammett: sharp, detailed, and gripping. He never
misses a beat. Also included it "Tulip," a fascinating, but
slow semi-autobiographical piece.
is manhunting. In this collection of short stories, he goes
up against Chinese gangsters, Balkan revolutionaries,
cowboys and more than a couple of spunky dames. This is
classic Hammett: sharp, detailed, and gripping. He never
misses a beat. Also included it "Tulip," a fascinating, but
slow semi-autobiographical piece.
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