The Continental Op -1925-26
The Continental Op -1925-26

Author: Dashiell Hammett

Publisher: www.PulpFictionBook.Store

Published: 2023-11-08

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13:

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The seven Continental Op stories that Dashiell Hammett wrote during 1925 and 1926 for The Black Mask magazine. Written in first person, these are the stories of an unnamed operative for the Continental Detective Agency. The operative deals with the gamut of human crime and cruelty. Mike or Alec or Rufus was published in the January 1925 issue. The Whosis Kid was published in the March 1925 issue. A novelette of thirteen chapters. The Scorched Face was published in the May 1925 issue. A novelette of eleven chapters. Corkscrew was published in the September 1925 issue. A novella of seventeen chapters. Dead Yellow Women was published in the November 1925 issue. A novelette of eleven chapters. The Gutting of Couffignal was published in the December 1925 issue. A novelette of nine chapters. The Creeping Siamese was published in the March 1926 issue. A novelette of two chapters.

The Big Book of the Continental Op
The Big Book of the Continental Op

Author: Dashiell Hammett

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0525432957

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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.

Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]
Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]

Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-07-26

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 0313345317

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This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.

John Bull's Other Homes
John Bull's Other Homes

Author: Murray Fraser

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780853236801

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State housing became an integral part of the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain from the 1880s until the early 1990s. Using research from both Irish and Westminster sources, this book shows that there was recurrent pressure for the state to intervene in housing in Ireland in a period when the "Irish Question" was the major domestic political issue. The result was that the model of subsidized state housing subsequently introduced in Britain was first developed in Ireland, as a product of the tensions of British rule. An important corollary of innovative Irish housing policy was its influence, even in a negative sense, on developments in mainland Britain. This book also examines the cultural impact of imperialism, and in particular the way in which British ideas of garden suburb housing and town planning design came significantly to reshape the Irish urban environment. Fraser not only presents hitherto unknown material, but does so in a unique interdisciplinary blend of architectural, planning, urban and socio-economic history.