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	ipedia.com: The Continental Op Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency, he never gave his name and so is known onl...
		The Continental Op The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett.
		A private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency, he never gave his name and so is known only by his job description.
	www.ipedia.com /the_continental_op.html (212 words)

	Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (The Dain Curse).
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		The Continental Op was introduced in the October 1923 issue of Black Mask in a story titled "Arson Plus." The Continental Op would eventually appear in 28 stories and two novels.
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	Dashiell Hammett
		The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective.
		The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
		THE CONTINENTAL OP Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.
	www.bastulli.com /Hammett/Hammett.htm (1054 words)

	Continental Op, The - Southern Maryland Online
		In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.
		"The Continental Op" is an excellent introduction to the writing of Dashiell Hammett, similar to the manner in which the American public discovered his works in "Black Mask" during the 1920s.
		The Continental Op, or operative, is that nameless San Francisco detective whose personal life away from the job, if indeed he has one, remains the greatest mystery of all.
	www.somd.com /Detailed/3161.php (513 words)

	The Continental Op -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Continental Op is a (An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)) fictional character created by (United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961)) Dashiell Hammett.
		A (Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information) private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office, he never gave his name and so is known only by his job description.
		In 1978, The Dain Curse was made into a six hour (Click link for more info and facts about CBS) CBS television miniseries starring (Click link for more info and facts about James Coburn) James Coburn.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/The_Continental_Op.htm (189 words)

	Hard-Boiled Writing from a Private Eye: A Conversation with Steven Marcus - Ideas, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The moral ambiguity that one finds in his stories has to do with the fact that the Op is himself very much involved in the same kind of activities that the people whom he is both working for and working against are involved in.
		For example, the Op, unlike the police, is saved from corruption by the fact that the Continental Agency does not allow its operators to share in rewards for any crime that is solved.
		The means that the Continental Op uses, and this is very close to "hard-boiled fiction," are themselves ambiguous.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /ideasv51/marcus.htm (2305 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Op stories are available in four books, the story collections The Big Knockover and The Continental Op, and the story sequences Red Harvest (1927) and The Dain Curse (1928).
		The Op is an operative for the (fictitious) Continental detective agency, hence his name.
		The Op is too busy using him as a pawn in his blowing up of Poisonville, and never notices him much as a person.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/hammett.htm (9636 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Continental Op has taken on the task of cleaning up the town, and his method is to set the different gangster factions against each other.
		I know some NYC cops, and their attitudes are really no different from what they would have been in the 1920s; it's just the procedures and the way of expressing opinions that have changed.
		Appearance: The Continental Op is the anonymous precursor to Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective.
	www.mysterylist.com /hammett.htm (2714 words)

	Irregular Orbit: The Continental Op
		Irregular Orbit: The Continental Op Ookworld's wobbly satellite.
		The Continental Op is another volume of short stories by Dashiell Hammett.
		These are stories of, naturally, The Continental Op, Hammett's short, stout and very hard-boiled operative for the Continental Detective Agency, San Francisco branch.
	ookworld.com /irorbit/archives/000153.html (272 words)

	Tohu Bohu
		Book Report: The Continental Op 21 June 2004, 3:08 PM Your Humble Blogger recently recommended “The House on Turk Street” and “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” to an acquaintance, and then realized I haven’t re-read them for years.
		The Op predicts, correctly, that the Quarres were doomed, when they relaxed after taking one gun from Tai: “The Chinese are a thorough people; if one of them carries a gun at all, he usually carries two or three or more.” This struck me, of course, as racist, and I certainly think that Mr.
		On the other hand, if the Op had referred to ‘cultural form’, and said something like ‘the Chinese culture encourages thoroughness, and if a product of that culture carries a gun at all, ta usually carries two or three or more’, I may have thought it silly, but not racist.
	www.kith.org /vardibidian/journal/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=2098 (594 words)

	Amazon.com: The Continental Op (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Continental Op is Hammett's main detective, not the more famous Sam Spade (who appears in only one novel and a couple of short stories, as opposed to the two novels and seventy some odd short stories of the Continental OP).
		The Op is based on Hammett's own experience working as an agency detective with parts of other real-life colleagues thrown in.
		I thoroughly enjoyed the 'Op' stories, even though their setting is the America of seventy or eighty years ago and the jargon is sometimes obscure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679722580?v=glance (1929 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Dianne Bellino / The Continental OP: Slitch / Slitch Music
		Leave it to the fine folks at Drag City to make a relatively difficult-to-obtain vinyl-only release from The Continental OP available to the masses in the form of double-sided CD+DVD, accompanied by the short film for which the music was commissioned.
		There is a strong link between The Continental OP's score and the material on Papa M's Live From a Shark Cage and Pajo's contribution to "Gravenhurst" on the original Pullman collaboration, Turnstyles and Junkpiles.
		Loose atmospheres dance through the background while strong minimalist acoustic guitar figures are repeated in cyclical fashion, blurring beginning and end, captivating the listener and drawing you closer to the sound.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=106431277522304 (535 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Continental Op (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The nameless operative of the Continental Detective Agency that stars in all these stories is also faceless: All we know is that he's overweight.
		The Continental Op, edited by Steven Marcus, is a collection of seven short stories all featuring the title character.
		As you know, the Continental Op is that nameless San Francisco detective whose personal life away from the job, if indeed he has one, remains the greatest mystery of all.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679722580 (1085 words)

	The Continental Detective Agency - books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The story features the culmination of Hammett's development of the Continental Op character; the nameless, overweight, balding detective who is summoned to a job in a town called Personville.
		The 'Op slowly brings the town to order basically by chucking a spanner in the political workings of the town and then playing one group off against another.
		Hammett's second novel also published in 1929 was the last outing for the Continental Op (a couple of short stories aside).
	www.transki.freeserve.co.uk /books.htm (1344 words)

	Continental Rift - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Continental rift: Europe was divided on Iraq, but it's moving toward a unified voice to counter U.S. power
		In siding with continental Europe rather than America, President Vladimir Putin was keeping his eye on Russia's long- term interests.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=5910 (1621 words)

	village voice > books > Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and Vintage Hammett by Alexis Soloski
		San Francisco, both the physical city and the one of literary imagining, has certainly changed in the 70-odd years since the Continental Op and Spade wandered it, but Dashiell Hammett is still very much on the map.
		The Op stories are pleasant enough but the mock western "Corkscrew" and "Dead Yellow Women," in which the Op and a Fu Manchu character engage in a self-deprecation contest, would have been bolder picks.
		The Continental Op, built like a pickle barrel and with much of one's saltiness, is a fine creation.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0505,soloski,60585,10.html (777 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		The Continental Op is alive and well, gainfully employed kicking down doors in Tikrit.
		We encounter the Op in a 1920s Western town, where the mine boss imported gangsters to break a strike, and the gangsters stayed to run the rackets.
		The Op willfully incites a gang war, deceiving colleagues and superiors.
	atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FA27Ak01.html (1332 words)

	The Continental Op's blog \| The Progressive Blog Alliance HQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Submitted by The Continental Op on Thu, 2005-07-07 08:27.
		Philosoraptor (to whom I was led by Lindsay at Majikthise) predicts a new wave of flag-protection hysteria, prompted by reports of flag desecration by Islamic militants.
		At last, the mainstream media--prodded by bloggers--are paying attention to this mounting evidence that the Bush administration, with the assistance of the Blair government, fabricated their case for war in Iraq in the full knowledge that their plans were contrary to international law.
	pbahq.smartcampaigns.com /index.php?q=blog/31 (2207 words)

	Dashiell Hammett. Biography and complete works
		However, the piece doesn't mention the murder of labour organizer Frank Little in the mining town of Butte, Montana, where Hammett was employed as a strike breaker, during a particularly brutal mining strike.
		Under the pseudonym Peter Collinson, Hammet introduced a short, overweight, unnamed detective employed by the San Francisco branch of the Continental Detective Agency, who became known as The Continental Op.
		The Dain Course is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/hammett.htm (2272 words)

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		Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm.
		The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength.
		The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.
	www.orionbooks.co.uk /MP-27980/The-Continental-Op-.htm (152 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The stories are uniformly excellent, and Hammett shows that his controlled, self-assured style as a writer dates from very early in his career.
		As one of the earliest hard-boiled characters, the Continental Op helped define the genre.
		Instead, the Op has a very pragmatic and calculated faith in his own abilities.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkHammettOp.html (514 words)

	Dashiell Hammett: Electronic Exhibit
		The Op is the epitome of the hard-boiled hero: tough, professional, equally at home with criminals and the police.
		On display here are a number of paperback books from the late 1940's and early 1950's, which reprinted many of the best Op stories.
		Hammett's Op stories had been largely unavailable in the 1930's and 40's until "Ellery Queen" (the joint pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) edited this series of reprints for a new generation of readers.
	www.lib.umd.edu /RARE/Exhibits/HardBoiled/Hammettexhibit.html (781 words)

	Major Works: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Op goes to "Poisonville," a mining town in Montana modeled on Anaconda or Butte, which is famously described as "an ugly city of forty thousand, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains" (4).
		The Op is a quester and in several short monologues he expresses a code.
		Later the Op's epistemology was laid baid, and Old Elihu was seen as a version of George Hearst, the Montana mine-owner whose son William controlled California newspapers and politics in Hammett's day.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Redharvest.html (1045 words)

	The Return of the Continental Op (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On a San Francisco street, the Op spots a known stick-up man called “The Whosis Kid;” he follows him and is led to a gang of jewel thieves.
		In “Death and Company,” the Op is asked to assist a man whose wife has been kidnapped (Note: this is the last Op story that Hammett wrote).
		In “The Tenth Clue” (originally published as “The Tenth Clew”), the Op follows a series of false clues to solve the murder of a wealthy San Francisco man.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /~rbrandt/sfmystery/summaries/hammretu.html (121 words)

	Continental OP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Continental OP R u s s i a n P a g e
		Continental OP are David Pajo and Will Oldham.
		For most of the '90s, Will Oldham was the mastermind of Palace Music, a shambling, country-tinged indie-rock group that recorded under a variety of names.
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	Nightmare Town : Stories (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are stories involving Sam Spade and the Continental Op, two figures made famous in Hammett's full-length novels.
		The Continental Op is a character rooted in realism whom Hammett based on a fellow detective from his days at Pinkerton Detective Agency, Jimmy Wright, and on himself.
		At first glance, the two detectives have more in common that not, but where the Op represents the way detectives of the era really were, Sam Spade represents the way they wanted to be.
	e-acting.com /isbn0375701028.html (1671 words)

	Dashiell Hammett, page 01 A short biography
		Bringing his real-life detective experience to his writing, he is today regarded as a founding father of the "hard-boiled" genre, as well as elevating detective fiction to the level of literature.
		Many of his stories featured a pudgy, middle-aged operative of the Continental Detective Agency, known only as The Continental Op.
		Like the Op, Spade was based in San Francisco, a city Hammett knew well.
	www.mikehumbert.com /Dashiell_Hammett_01_Short_Bio.html (1358 words)

	Mysterylist.com: Series Detectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Short story collections featuring the Continental Op are well worth reading for the skillful mixture of pulp crime and true detection.
		As a character, he is the most appealing PI since Hammett's Continental Op, whom he resembles.
		But when he goes on about how boring being a detective is, that he never gets beaten up or meets an exotic woman, you should read the books where all these things happen to him (buried in a mine-shaft, shot, stabbed, beaten unconscious several times, half-drowned, held prisoner, etc.).
	www.mysterylist.com /series4.htm (2500 words)

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