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The dain curse dashiell hammett6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() He fears becoming like his boss, "The Old Man", whom he describes as "a shell, without any human feelings whatsoever". ![]() In his 1927 Black Mask story "$106,000 Blood Money" the Op is confronted with a dilemma: should he expose a corrupt fellow detective, thereby hurting the reputation of his agency and should he also allow an informant to collect the $106,000 reward in a big case even though he is morally certain-but cannot prove-that the informant has murdered one of his agency's clients? The Op resolves his two problems neatly by manipulating events so that the corrupt detective and the informant get into an armed confrontation in which both are killed.ĭecades of witnessing human cruelty, misery, and ruin, as well as being instrumental in sending hundreds of people to jail, or to the gallows, have greatly weakened the Op's natural sympathy with his fellow men. ![]() The Continental Op is a master of deceit in the exercise of his occupation. The stories are all told in the first person and his name is never given. He is a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office. The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett. ![]()
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