Continental Op Stories

Before there was Sam Spade , before there was Nick Charles, there was the unnamed operative in the Continental Detective Agency: the Continental Op . It was the Continental Op that, through a series of twenty-eight stories and two novels written in the mid to late 1920s, established Dashiel Hammett’s reputation as one of the finest crime writers of the century. The Continental Op is of below-average height and above-average weight, but is willing and able to mix it up with whatever ruffians he encounters on his assignments. Those assignments often look benign at first, but turn sinister in a