The death of a well-known San Francisco doctor leads to a murder charge against his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wife? The Continental operation is on the case in Dashiell Hammett's "Zigzags of Treachery," featured here with two other short stories from the pages of Black Mask magazine, "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" and "The Horseshoe." Golden". – Summary and reading by Winston Tharp
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:02 – Zigzags of betrayal, part 1
00:44:27 – Zigzags of betrayal, part 2
01:26:34 – The girl with silver eyes, part 1
02:12:27 – The girl with silver eyes, part 2
03:02:28 – The Golden Horseshoe, part 1
03:54:49 – The Golden Horseshoe, part 2
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/dəˈʃiːl ˈhæmɪt/; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
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