"Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett (narrated by Evan Mercer)

Dashiell Hammett is the undisputed master of hardboiled detective fiction, and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. In his first year, Hammett published twelve stories in magazines before “Arson Plus” (his pioneering “hard-boiled” story) appeared in the October 1, 1923, issue of The Black Mask under the pseudonym, Peter Collinson. In “Arson Plus”, Hammett introduces the nameless detective, the Continental Op (an operative in the San Francisco office of the Continental Detective Agency) as the narrator, whom Hammett described as: "a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit-as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary” In his intro to the story, “Collinson” writes: “This is a detective story you’ll have a hard time solving before the end. Form your ideas of the outcome as you go along and then see how near you guessed it.” Check out Roku Tv for my new Tales of Mystery, Intrigue and Imagination Channel https://channelstore.roku.com/details/d305...