Sam Spade, before there was Nick Charles, there was the unnamed operative in the Continental Detective Agency: the
Continental Op. It was the Continental Op that, through a series of twenty-eight stories and two novels written in the mid to late 1920’s, established
Dashiel Hammett’s reputation as one of the finest crime writers of the century.
The Continental Op is of below-average height and above-average weight, but is willing and able to mix it up with whatever ruffians he encounters on his assignments...." data-title="Книга Continental Op Stories">