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The Gutting of Couffignal is a hardboiled crime short story by Dashiell Hammett. It has been reprinted many times in different collections, namely: The Return of the Continental Op, The Big Knockover, Crime Stories and Other Writings, and The Big Book of the Continental Op. Plot
23 de may. de 2021 · Set in a community populated by wealthy retirees, the tale reads like a chaotic war story when the island of Couffignal is suddenly and inexplicably attacked by a small army, complete with machine guns, hand grenades, and bombs.
From its brutal title to its sardonic final lines, The Gutting of Couffignal is a showcase of the early hard-boiled detective style invented by Dashiell Hammett—especially in its early action-oriented phase, while still being a mystery.
9 de sept. de 2014 · The Gutting of Couffignal, de Dashiell Hammett. Si hay que diferenciar en algo a los dos maestros de la novela negra, Chandler y Hammett, habría que señalar que Chandler suele moverse en un microcosmos cerrado, viciado por sus propios protagonistas, mientras que a menudo Dashiell Hammett es más expansivo, y no se limita a un caso cerrado ...
The Gutting of Couffignal edge-shaped Couffignal is not a large island, and not far from the mainland, to which it is linked by a wooden bridge. Its western shore is a high, straight cliff that jumps abruptly up out of San Pablo Bay. From the top of this cliff the island slopes eastward, down to a smooth pebble beach
14 de nov. de 2022 · LibriVox recording of The Gutting of Couffignal by Dashiell Hammett. Read in English by Winston Tharp. Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled detective is assigned by his agency to guard a stash of wedding presents on an exclusive Bay Area island.
28 de may. de 2021 · 127 years ago, on May 27, 1894, detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was born. “I won’t play the sap for you,” Sam Spade says to Brigid O’Shaughnessy at the end of The Maltese Falcon, one of the most famous scenes in all of hard-boiled crime literature—or, for that matter, film.
