Thu 14 Nov 2024
Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading / Diary Review: DASHIELL HAMMETT “The Big Knockover.”
Posted by Steve under Diary Reviews , Pulp Fiction1 Comment
DASHIELL HAMMETT “The Big Knockover.” First published in The Black Mask, February 1927. Collected in The Big Nightmare (Random House, 1966).
Hoods from all over the country are imported into San Francisco to pull off a multimillion dollar double bank robbery, As the Continental Op investigates, most of the gunmen are found murdered, victims of a vicious double-cross. Papadopoulos, the headman, fools the OP and escapes. (4)
— September 1968.
November 16th, 2024 at 8:51 am
Another classic, paired together with $106,000 Blood Money. As most of us have read about, there
was talk about publishing the two stories together as a novel, but never came to fruition. Too bad all that Hollywood moola prevented Hammett from writing more OP stories.