continental op (fictitious character)

Collects four linked stories and two novels by twentieth-century American detective novelist Dashiell Hammett, including "The Dain Curse.".

Presents three classic crime novels by Dashiell Hammett, including "The Maltese Falcon," in which Sam Spade, a private eye in 1920s San Francisco, tangles with a beautiful, treacherous woman; "The Thin Man," in which married sophisticates Nick and Nora Charles search for a murderer in Manhattan; and "Red Harvest," in which the Continental OP wages war against corruption in Poisonville.