Who took a shot at the nasty old businessman, Talbert Exon, while he was in bed at home recovering from pneumonia? The Op gets the assignment from his employer, the Continental Detective Agency, and travels to Knownburg in San Joaquim County to find out. For awhile he's stumped! "Black Mask" introduced it this way: "Mr. Hammett's nameless detective is lured into a sweet little domestic mess with an outside mystery; as usual, he walks into a lot of excitement, not all of which comes from the muzzle of a gun." Librarian's note #1: this entry is for the story, "Night Shots." Entries for collections of short stories, and each of the other individual stories, can be found elsewhere on Goodreads. There are a total of 28 short stories plus one incomplete; they can all be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Continental Op Short Story." Librarian's note #2: there are also two Continental Op novels, "Red Harvest" (also known as "The Cleansing of Poisonville), and "The Dain Curse."