Slippery Fingers
Author: Dashiell Hammett
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Short story
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When a wealthy retired miner is found stabbed in his own library, the Continental Op must find the owner of a set of bloody fingerprints that match no criminal on file.
Characters
- The Continental Op — the narrator: A nameless detective from the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office.
- Frederick Grover — the client: Grover's son, a shrewd young stockbroker who hires the Op to find his father's killer.
- Henry Grover — the murder victim: A wealthy retired mining man, found stabbed to death in his own library.
- Joseph Clane — Grover's old friend: A hard-bitten old friend of Grover's from his mining days, now a racehorse owner.
- George Farr — photographer: A photographer with a studio on Market Street, tied up in Clane's affairs.
- Barton — butler-valet: Grover's long-serving butler-valet, dismissed as usual on the night of the murder.