The Big Book of the Continental Op
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op-one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.
Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled...
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Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op-one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.
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ForewordTHROUGH MUD AND BLOOD AND DEATH AND DECEIT
Julie M. Rivett
This long-awaited volume you hold in your hands is the first and only collection to assemble every one of Dashiell Hammett s pioneering Continental Op adventures twentyeight stand-alone stories, two novels, and Hammett s only known unfinished Continental Op tale. It is truly definitive. And it has been many decades in the making. At the time of this writing, the first Op story is ninety-four years old and the last is seventy-nine, not including Three Dimes, an undated draft fragment conserved in Hammett s archives, first published in 2016. The gritty sleuth Hammett described as a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit has weathered gunshots, grifters, criminal conspiracies, class struggles, temptations, neglect, and more. This volume is testament to his tenacity. He is a survivor, a working-class hero, and a landmark literary creation.
The Continental Op stories are rooted in Hammett s experiences as an operative for Pinkerton s National Detective Agency. Although Hammett worked for Pinkerton s for a scant five years before and after his service in the U.S. Army during World War I the job inspired both his writing career and his worldview. Some influences are plain. The Continental Detective Agency, for example, is modeled on Pinkerton s, their Baltimore office located in the Continental Trust Company Building, where Hammett had been hired. Hammett said his cases largely involved forgeries, bank swindles, and safe burglaries, a solid factual basis for the Op s fictional adventures, albeit considerably enlivened. As much happens to one of my detectives in a page and a half as happened to me in six months when I was a real-life detective, Hammett wrote. While his salary was a mere $21 a week (roughly $500 in 2017 dollars), the training was invaluable, even in what Hammett called the easiest thing a sleuth has to do : shadowing. Despite being
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more than six feet tall, Hammett was reportedly an excellent shadow man, knowing to hang back, keep his cool, and catalog all available clues. Faces were only one aspect of the descriptive package. Close observation of tricks of carriage, ways of wearing clothes, general outline, individual mannerisms all as seen from the rear are much more important to the shadow than faces, Hammett wrote in a letter to Black Mask magazine in 1924. It s easy to imagine the Op s vivid narratives as extended versions of what his reports to the Continental would have been: physical detail in wry tone, succinct, but with enough specifics to allow colleagues to identify shared quarry and continue the chase. Hammett s case reports for Pinkerton s are lost to history (or fire), but it s safe to say that his experience as a shadow man was stellar preparation for his new class of scrupulously observed crime fiction.
Hammett identified the assistant manager of Pinkerton s Baltimore office, James Wright, as his mentor and a model for the Op. The claim bears truth in its implication, if not in actual fact. James Wright was a pseudonym that had been shared among Pinkerton agents for decades. Hammett s sly suggestion that the Op is an anonymous amalgamation holds with his later remarks on the origins of the character. The op I use, explained Hammett, is the typical sort of private detective that exists in our country today. I ve worked with half a dozen men who might be he with few changes. Though he may be different in fiction, he is almost pure type in life. Part of that type is defined by a code of honor intrinsic to the detectives professi
Hammett identified the assistant manager of Pinkerton s Baltimore office, James Wright, as his mentor and a model for the Op. The claim bears truth in its implication, if not in actual fact. James Wright was a pseudonym that had been shared among Pinkerton agents for decades. Hammett s sly suggestion that the Op is an anonymous amalgamation holds with his later remarks on the origins of the character. The op I use, explained Hammett, is the typical sort of private detective that exists in our country today. I ve worked with half a dozen men who might be he with few changes. Though he may be different in fiction, he is almost pure type in life. Part of that type is defined by a code of honor intrinsic to the detectives professi
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Autoren-Porträt von Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dashiell Hammett
- 2017, 752 Seiten, Maße: 19,2 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivett
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0525432957
- ISBN-13: 9780525432951
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.11.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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