Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook Short ...

Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Arson Plus



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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“Arson Plus” is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as “a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit—as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary” (William F. Nolan, Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook).



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Slippery Fingers ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook ...

Slippery Fingers ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Slippery Fingers



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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Crooked Souls is “a crime story about people with problems” and contends that it is “Hammett's first great Op classic of the crime genre. As the evocative title indicates, here Hammett already evinces more interest in the character.” While “Slippery Fingers” is a relatively straightforward murder mystery that adheres to the conventions of the genre, “Crooked Souls” details the “dogged, routine detective work” that biographer Richard Layman cites as the distinguishing characteristic of Hammett’s later stories. Some of that investigative work could be tedious: “Shadowing is the easiest of detective work,” Hammett wrote to the editors of Black Mask in 1924. “Back—and it’s only a couple of years back—in the days before I decided that there was more fun in writing about manhunting than in that hunting, I wasn’t especially fond of shadowing, though I had plenty of it to do.”



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Crooked Souls ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook Sho...

Crooked Souls ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Crooked Souls



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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Crooked Souls is “a crime story about people with problems” and contends that it is “Hammett's first great Op classic of the crime genre. As the evocative title indicates, here Hammett already evinces more interest in the character.” While “Slippery Fingers” is a relatively straightforward murder mystery that adheres to the conventions of the genre, “Crooked Souls” details the “dogged, routine detective work” that biographer Richard Layman cites as the distinguishing characteristic of Hammett’s later stories. Some of that investigative work could be tedious: “Shadowing is the easiest of detective work,” Hammett wrote to the editors of Black Mask in 1924. “Back—and it’s only a couple of years back—in the days before I decided that there was more fun in writing about manhunting than in that hunting, I wasn’t especially fond of shadowing, though I had plenty of it to do.”



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Bodies Piled Up ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook S...

Bodies Piled Up ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Bodies Piled Up



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Continental Op walked early twentieth century San Francisco’s mean streets for the Continental Detective Agency. Dashiell Hammett used his own experiences as a Pinkerton operative to lend realistic detail to this creation. These first five stories were published in Black Mask magazine in 1923. - Summary by Winston Tharp



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