William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 19:22:34 -0400 (EDT)
On 28 August 1999, ElectricSuit@aol.com
wrote:
: I just wonder if there is a name, because in the movie
of The Dain
: Curse, James Coburn plays Hamilton Nash, but I have yet
to see that
: name anywhere in the book and did not see it at all in
Red Harvest.
: Maybe I'm just needlessly chasing a loose
thread.
He never gets a name in any of the stories, and readers call
him the Continental Op. I was wondering how Hammett referred
to him in conversation or letters--did he call him the Op, or
did he have some kind of pet name? Does anyone remember if
any of the bios mention anything about this?
Bill
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