Bodies Piled Up
Author: Dashiell Hammett
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Crime, Fiction, hardboiled, Mystery
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When three strangers turn up dead together in a locked hotel room, the Continental Op's hunt for a missing motive pulls him into the crossfire between two men each hunting the other.
Characters
- The Continental Op — the narrator: An operative filling in as house detective at the Montgomery Hotel.
- Guy Cudner — wanted criminal: A notorious crook known as The Darkman, the most dangerous man on the Coast.
- Ross Orrett — hotel guest: A cold-eyed hotel guest who checked out under a false name and started hunting for Cudner.
- Dick Foley — agency shadow man: The Continental's shadow specialist, sent to trail Orrett through the city.
- Vincent Develyn — murder victim: A widowed insurance broker who had lived at the Montgomery since his wife's death.