# Daniel Rathbone — Continental Op Stories character guide

> Daniel Rathbone in Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dan, Daniel Rathbone, Rathbone

**First appearance:** 0004-bodies-piled-up

## Snapshot

A vanished businessman whose emptied bank account, abandoned baggage, and trail of women turn a routine disappearance into a knot of lies.

## Who they are

Rathbone leaves behind a drained trust account, a taxi driver he stiffed, and at least two women who measure their answers carefully. His disappearance pulls the Continental Op through hotels, baggage rooms, and apartments where affection and alibi blur. What makes him matter is the gap between the respectable man his associates describe and the trail of small cruelties and evasions he actually left.

## In the story

### [It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/it)

Missing partner; later found murdered and buried.

### [The Gutting of Couffignal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/the-gutting-of-couffignal)

A wealthy resident of Couffignal who hires the Op; his wedding celebration is the backdrop for the heist.

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