02993cam a2200349 4500 266758180 TxAuBib 20160625120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781504035965 1504035968 ee34df40-57d1-4e6b-af32-9a22af391507 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2697413 OverDrive (Product ID) 2697413 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Arson Plus and Other Stories [Libby eBook] : Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Early Years, Volume 1. MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2654kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2654kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>Introducing the Continental Op—legendary hardboiled sleuth—in the first of seven short-story collections featuring Dashiell Hammett's infamous detective</b><br /> The house is soaked with gasoline, and it takes only a spark for it to be engulfed in flames. As the ruins smolder, the case-hardened operative from the Continental Detective Agency is the one person determined to untangle the tough questions: Who tossed the match and why? Was it an angry neighbor, a disgruntled servant, or the old man in the window who was seen giving one last look at the world before the fire consumed him? In the wreckage of the ruined house, the Continental Op will find that nothing burns hotter than greed.<br /> <br /> "Arson Plus" is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as "a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit—as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary" (William F. Nolan, <i>Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook</i>). Born in the pages of <i>Black Mask</i> in 1923, the Continental Op is ageless, a hardworking hero as much for our time as he is for his own. Rediscover the early stories of the original hardboiled detective in the first volume of the Collected Case Files of the Continental Op, featuring "Arson Plus," "Slippery Fingers," and "Crooked Souls."</p>. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-06-24 23:00:03. Layman, Richard. Rivett, Julie M. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ee34df40-57d1-4e6b-af32-9a22af391507 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee34df40-57d1-4e6b-af32-9a22af391507&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee34df40-57d1-4e6b-af32-9a22af391507&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee34df40-57d1-4e6b-af32-9a22af391507&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)