SOURCE: "Return of the Continental Op," in The Nation, New York, Vol. 203, No. 14, October 31, 1966, pp. 454-56.
In this excerpt from a review of The Big Knockover, Gardner comments on Hammett's literary style and imaginative use of the detective fiction genre.
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