gangsters

The Fourth Corpse and Other Stories – Five stories of vicious gangsters, sleazy grifters, and a pickpocket that saves the day, as only Norman A. Daniels can tell them.

The Harbor of Death – Strange things are happening at the port. Fear has become part of the longshoremen’s daily routine. ‘Accidents’ have become frequent. Dan Fowler of the FBI goes undercover to get to the bottom of it.

The Continental Op-1927 – From ‘The Big Knockover’ to the beginnings of the Poisonville stories, 1927 was a very important year for Dashiell Hammett.

Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories – Poisonville is the original set of four novelettes from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.