The Tenth Clew and Eight Other Continental Op Stories
Dashiell Hammett
Nine cases from 1924, opening with a novelette where the detective is handed nine useless clues and has to go find the tenth. Reprinted from the original magazine pages with the editors' introductions intact.
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