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The Continental Op Books in Order

by Dashiell HammettMystery, Thriller & Suspense

5 books from Red Harvest (1929) to The Farewell Murder & Death and Company (2025). Rated 4.3 across 1,773 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Red Harvest

    Book 1 1929 4.3 (1.3k)

    Detective-story master Dashiell Hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest. When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an…

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  2. The Dain Curse

    Book 2 1929 4.2 (506)

    The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults.

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  3. The Golden Horseshoe

    Book 3 2025 1.0 (1)

    An intricate story of seeking a man with many roundabout events winding up with several murders along the way.

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  4. The Whosis Kid

    Book 4 2025

    An intricate twisted plot with moral ambiguity. Considered one of his best stories.

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  5. The Farewell Murder & Death and Company

    Book 6 2025 by Hammett Dashiell

    Both are wild tales of intrigue. Both involving murder.

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Adapted for screen

  • Dollars Films · 1964–1966 · 3 films

Collections and companions

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Continental Op is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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