# The Big Knockover

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- Book: [The Big Knockover](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett/the-big-knockover) ([The Big Knockover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett/the-big-knockover.md))
- Authors: [Dashiell Hammet](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett)
- Publisher: Orion
- ISBN: 978-14-0913-806-8
- Published: 2012-04-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as a mule, the Op's only enthusiasm was doing his job. In the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freebooters, cleaning up a vice-ridden hell in the desert and dealing with assorted colourful grifters like the Dis-and-Dat Kid, Alphabet Shorty McCoy and Bluepoint Vance.