The House in Turk Street (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: The 1920's
- Setting: San Francisco
- Principal Characters: The Continental Op, Mr. and Mrs. Quarre, Hook, Elvira, Tai Choon Tau
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Suspense
- Subjects: Justice, Detectives, Duty, Greed, Corruption, Hallucinations or illusions, Private investigators
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Story
The Continental Op, a private detective who works for the Continental Detective Agency, has learned that a man whom he is hunting is living in a certain block of Turk Street in San Francisco. After canvassing all the houses on one side of the block and four on the other, he knocks on the door of the fifth house. At first no one answers. As the Op is about to leave, the door is opened by a friendly, fragile-looking old woman who insists that he enter. The Op, after a mild protest, enters the house and is taken into a sitting room, where an equally friendly old man, the...
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