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      The Big Knockover

      by Dashiell Hammett
      Published
      Oct 1972
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.

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      Hard-Boiled

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      First Edition Oct 1972 Vintage ISBN13 9780394718293 ISBN10 0394718291
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      Jul 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780679722595 ISBN10 0679722599
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      Apr 2012 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9781409138068 ISBN10 1409138062
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      Oct 2019 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9781409195757 ISBN10 1409195759
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