The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
New York: Random House, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears.
xxi, 355 pp. Edited with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman. "Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.....
