The Titles
The Continental Op Saga today is comprised of two novels and thirty-six short stories. Unfortunately, all the Op stories are no longer available.
Red Harvest (1927)
The Dain Curse (1928)
The Gatewood Caper (1923)
The Scorched Face (1925) Corkscrew (1925)
The Big Knockover (1927)
This King Business (1927)
Fly Paper (1929)
The Gutting of Couffignal (1925) Dead Yellow Women (1925)
$106,000 Blood Money (1927)
The Continental Op - Selected Short Stories (1974)
The Tenth Clew (1924)
The Golden Horseshoe (1924) The House in Turk Street (1924) The Girl With the Silver Eyes (1924)
The Whosis Kid (1925) The Main Death (1927) The Farewell Murder (1930)
Nightmare Town (1999)
House Dick(1923)
Night Shots;(1924)
Zigzags of Treachery; (1924)
Death on Pine Street;(aka Women, Politics and Murder) (1924)
Tom, Dick or Harry; (1925)
One Hour; (1924)
Who Killed Bob Teal?; (1924)
Hammett- Crime Stories and Other Writings (2001)
Arson Plus (1923), Slippery Fingers (1923),
Creeping Siamese (1925)
Stories not available today:
It (aka The Black Hat that Wasn't There)(1923),
,
Death and Company (1930)
Dashiell Hammett's
Continental Op Short Stories(complete)
1923
- Arson Plus
- Black Mask, October 1
- Slippery Fingers
- Black Mask, October 15
- Crooked Souls (aka The Gatewood Caper)
- Black Mask, October 15
- It (aka The Black Hat That Wasn't There)
- Black Mask, November 1
- Bodies Piled Up (aka House Dick)
- Black Mask, December 1
1924
- The Tenth Clew
- Black Mask, January 1
- Night Shots
- Black Mask, February 1
- Zigzags of Treachery
- Black Mask, March 1
- One Hour
- Black Mask, April 1
- The House in Turk Street
- Black Mask, April 15
- The Girl With the Silver Eyes (sequel to The House on Turk Street)
- Black Mask, June
- Women, Politics and Murder (aka Death on Pine Street)
- Black Mask, September
- The Golden Horseshoe
- Black Mask, November
- Who Killed Bob Teal?
- True Detective, November
1925
- Mike, Alec or Rufus (aka Tom, Dick or Harry)
- Black Mask, January
- The Whosis Kid
- Black Mask, March
- The Scorched Face
- Black Mask, May
- Corskscrew
- Black Mask, September
- Dead Yellow Women
- Black Mask, November
- The Gutting of Couffignal
- Black Mask, December
1926
- Creeping Siamese
- Black Mask, March
1927
- The Big Knockover (included as first half of his novel, Blood Money)
- Black Mask, February
- $106,000 Blood Money (included as second half of his novel, Blood Money)
- Black Mask, May
- The Main Death
- Black Mask, June
- The Cleansing of Poisonville (revised as part 1 of his novel, Red Harvest)
- Black Mask, November
- Crime Wanted - Male of Female (revised as part 2 of his novel, Red Harvest)
- Black Mask, December
1928
- This King Business
- Mystery Stories, January
- Dynamite (revised as part 3 of his novel, Red Harvest)
- Black Mask, January
- The 19th Murder (revised as part 4 of his novel, Red Harvest)
- Black Mask, February
- Black Lives (revised as part 1 of his novel, The Dain Curse)
- Black Mask, November
- The Hollow Temple (revised as part 2 of his novel, The Dain Curse)
- Black Mask, December
1929
- Black Honeymoon (revised as part 3 of his novel, The Dain Curse)
- Black Mask, January
- Black Riddle (revised as part 4 of his novel, The Dain Curse)
- Black Mask, February
- Fly Paper
- Black Mask, August
1930
- The Farewell Murder
- Black Mask, February
- Death and Company
- Black Mask, November
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