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"Nightshade" by Dashiell Hammett is a short story appearing in "Mystery League Magazine, October 1933" featuring Jack Bye, who encounters a young woman, Helen Warner, stranded near Piney Falls bridge. Helen urgently asks for a ride into town, escaping from two men, Tony Forrest and Fred Barnes, who seem wary of Jack. Jack helps Helen and drives her into town, where they stop at a speakeasy for drinks. Their interaction is lighthearted but tinged with tension.

This detective series follows a private investigator as he solves crimes with a mix of toughness and humor, often getting entangled in complex cases. The narratives are engaging and fast-paced.

Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental Detective Agency operative survives being knocked unconscious and dumped in San Francisco Bay. This kind of action was what his Black Mask magazine editors and readers were asking for, and Hammett somewhat grudgingly obliged them with continuing stories of the Continental Op. (Winston Tharp)

The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wife? The Continental Op is on the case in Dashiell Hammett’s “Zigzags of Treachery,” featured here along with two more novellas from the pages of Black Mask magazine, "The Girl with Silver Eyes" and “The Golden Horseshoe.” - Summary by Winston Tharp

An exclusive Bay Area island, renowned for its wealth and tranquility, becomes the unexpected battleground in this thrilling episode of Dashiell Hammetts detective saga. The Continental Op, our hardboiled hero, is initially tasked with guarding a stash of opulent wedding presents. Just as he anticipates a mundane assignment, the island descends into chaos - the lights flicker out, and the peace is fractured by gunfire and explosions. A military-style raid on the affluent residents is in full force and its up to the unflappable Continental Op to thwart it. Narrated by Winston Tharp, get ready ...

This detective series follows a private investigator as he solves crimes with a mix of toughness and humor, often getting entangled in complex cases. The narratives are engaging and fast-paced.

This detective series follows a private investigator as he solves crimes with a mix of toughness and humor, often getting entangled in complex cases. The narratives are engaging and fast-paced.

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detectives ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, in London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formiddable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, and the more modern creations of Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Sam Spade as they solve crimes in wondorously inventive and ingenious ways.

Both are wild tales of intrigue. Both involving murder.

A story about a rich heir going off to become king in a small country & the wild goings on there.

A tale about a missing daughter, the follow-up, murder and more.

The Essential Classics: Volume 4 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Nathan Osgood, David Rintoul, and Jonathan Keeble. Spanning British, Russian, and Irish literature, this collection includes stories of war and brutality in A Farewell to Arms, love and loss on an epic scale in War & Peace, as well as Hammett's devilishly clever detective thriller, Red Harvest, and many more.

A big reward to capture the mastermind of big bank robberies with twists & turns everywhere.

A robbery gone wrong and an intricate tale involving murder and more.

This detective series follows a private investigator as he solves crimes with a mix of toughness and humor, often getting entangled in complex cases. The narratives are engaging and fast-paced.

An intriguing ingenious tale of intrigue and robbery in a remote California island.

A puzzler that takes expert unravelling.

This detective series follows a private investigator as he solves crimes with a mix of toughness and humor, often getting entangled in complex cases. The narratives are engaging and fast-paced.

Plunge into the world of the Continental Op, Dashiell Hammetts legendary hard-boiled private detective, as he navigates through a web of intrigue, theft, drugs and a purported family curse in his second adventure, The Dain Curse. As the body count rises and secrets are shrouded in deception, the truth becomes an elusive gem buried beneath a mountain of lies. Tune in to each episode narrated compellingly by The Narrator.

A wild west drama with mayhem and more is a dusty Arizona town.