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| The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
| | Dashiell Hammett
| 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.
Contents:
Introduction by Lillian Hellman
The Gutting of Couffignal
Fly Paper
The Scorched Face
The King Business
The Gatewood Caper
Dead Yellow Women
Corkscrew
Tulip
The Big Knockover
$106,000 Blood Money
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