The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Scuff to front wrapper, light edge wear.
xxv, 458 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.....