Night Shots
Author: Dashiell Hammett
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Crime, Fiction, hardboiled, Mystery
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Called out to a country house where an unseen gunman has twice taken shots at a convalescent old man in the night, the Continental Op keeps watch as the shooting draws closer to drawing blood.
Characters
- The Continental Op — the narrator: An operative sent to a country house to look into two nights of shots fired at its owner.
- Talbert Exon — the intended victim: A fifty-seven-year-old patriarch, ordinarily tough and fiery, now laid up with pneumonia.
- Barbra Caywood — the nurse: A young nurse of twenty-one or two, hired from San Francisco to look after Exon.
- Hilary Gallaway — the son-in-law: Exon's carelessly dressed, hard-drinking son-in-law, who sent for the detective.
- Mrs. Gallaway — Exon's daughter: Exon's anxious daughter, plainly devoted to her indifferent husband.
- Shand — deputy sheriff: The slow-spoken deputy sheriff of the nearby town of Knownburg.