The Tenth Clue
Author: Dashiell Hammett
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Crime, Fiction, hardboiled, Mystery
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When a wealthy retired importer is bludgeoned to death on the eve of a secret second marriage, the Continental Op and a police sergeant sift a pile of planted clues to find out who really wanted him dead.
Characters
- The Continental Op — the narrator: An operative called in the night a client's threat to his life turns real.
- Leopold Gantvoort — murder victim: A wealthy retired importer, past fifty-seven, about to remarry in secret.
- Charles Gantvoort — the victim's son: The dead man's son, who runs the family's import-export business.
- O'Gar — detective sergeant: A bullet-headed homicide sergeant who has worked cases with the Op before.
- Creda Dexter — the victim's fiancée: A young woman in her early twenties whom Gantvoort planned to marry.
- Madden Dexter — her brother: Creda's brother, away in New York settling the dead man's business.