The Big Knockover

by Hammett, Dashiell

Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.

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THE BIG KNOCKOVER; Selected Stories and Short Novels of Dashiell Hammett / Edited and with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman
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New York: Random House, 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x1x8. Reprint. Faint toning. 1989 Trade Paperback. 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… Read more about this item
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The Big Knockover, Dashiell Hammett, published Vintage Crime (1989), ISBN 9780679722595, 451 pages, later printing,.. Clean never slow, There is nothing like The Big Knockover in all of detective fiction...Small about of handling wear at edge corner, pages clean, crisp, unmarked but lightly tanning from age, paperback book in good condition...LAX Vespa, Los Angeles - maybe this will do it!-At… Read more about this item
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

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[New York: Jonathan Press, Inc.] n.d., [1948]. Later edition. A nearly fine copy. (24420). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Jonathan Press No. J36. Digest size magazine format. First published by Spivak publications as $106,000 BLOOD MONEY. This volume consists of The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money collected together as a novel. Both stories first appeared in… Read more about this item
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

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The Big Knockover.

by Hammett, Dashiell. (Text) Hellman, Lillian. (Introduction)

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The Big Knockover

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