Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 352pp
Size: 5.25 x 8
Notes: paperback
Release Date: January 1, 1989
ISBN: 978-0679722588