I purchased a copy of a Dashiell Hammett collection, The Big Knockover. And I’m glad I did. With a single exception, the book is a treasury of several of Hammett’s Continental Op stories. The odd man out is a partially finished novel called Tulip. If one can extrapolate from Lillian Hellman’s introduction, Tulip appears to… Continue reading The Continental Op: The Hardest Boiled.
If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction