Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

Dell, 1945.
192 pp.
Dell Mapback no. 129.
Paperback. Very good.
Minor stain to edge of back cover.
Spine edges somewhat rubbed.