On 3 April 2005, Larry Newton wrote:
: Does anyone know of a complete compilation of Dashiell
Hammett's
: Continental Op stories? I'm aware of the Op novels (Red
Harvest, Dain
: Curse) as well as the few books of shorter stories (Big
Knockover, Woman
: in the Dark, Blood Money, the Continental Op and the Return
of the
: Continental Op), but not all in one book.
You can get almost all of them if you get the Library of
America's CRIME STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS and then NIGHTMARE
TOWN. I put together a list here that tells what's
where:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/biblio/lazy-gink.html
I think those two books would leave you missing one Op story,
which might be collected in the new collection Mr. Emery is
editing. There's no complete collection of Op stories, though
such a thing would certainly be nice.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
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