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The Big Knockover

Hammett, Dashiell more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Crime & mystery
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publication Date: 12/06/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $22.99
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Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as a mule, the Op's only enthusiasm was doing his job and, in the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freebooters, cleaning up a vice-ridden hell in the desert and dealing with assorted colourful grifters like the Dis-and-Dat Kid, Alphabet Shorty McCoy and Bluepoint Vance.