Dave-
Have you read "The Big Knockover" yet? Put together with "$106,000 Blood
Money," it makes another "novel," since both are long shorts, practically
novella-length.
Speaking as a long-time fan of Hammett's work, I think that I prefer the Op
in short stories. "Dead Yellow Women," "The House on Turk Street," "The
Girl With the Silver Eyes," and my favorite of his shorts, "The Scorched
Face" all really worked well with the Op in them. Much better than THE DAIN
CURSE turned out.
YMMV-
Brian
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, davezeltserman
<Dave.Zeltserman@gmail.com>wrote:
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> Like Mario I've been rereading the Continental Op stories of late, and it's
> just great stuff, $106,000 Blood Money in particular. Unlike Big Flora,
> first time around I missed the full extent of what the Op sets up at the
> end, and for hardboiled fiction it's about as ruthless and cynical as it
> gets.
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> --Dave
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