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"The House on Turk Street" is a 1924 short story by Dashiell Hammett, first published in Black Mask in April 1924, and later included in the collection The Continental Op, published in 1974.

Plot
On a routine canvass of Turk Street in San Francisco, the Continental Op is invited into the home of the Quarres, an elderly couple. The Op is given a cup of tea and a cigar, but his interview of the Quarres is suddenly interrupted by a man with a gun, who believes he is the target of the Op's search. The Op is bound and gagged, but overhears the aftermath of a plot to steal $100,000 in bonds, as the conspirators try to decide what to do with him.