# Edouard Maurois — Continental Op Stories character guide

> Edouard Maurois in Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Edouard Maurois, this Maurois, Maurois, Edouard

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

## Who they are

A Frenchman involved in a criminal scheme.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/iii)

Registered as Edouard Maurois from Dijon, France; receives a call to meet someone at Kearny and Broadway.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/iv)

Previously followed by the Op; now abandoned to pursue the woman.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned as part of the international cast connected to Inés.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/viii)

Arrives with a companion, interrogates Inés about a missing share, uses a fake accent.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/ix)

Initially suspicious of the Kid, but agrees to a fifty-fifty split after being convinced of Inés's treachery.

### [The Whosis Kid's Brutal Search](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/x)

Initially protests but acquiesces to the Kid's methods; holds Inés during the search.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/xi)

Reluctantly hands over the jewels, then is subdued and killed by a stray bullet in the dark.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/xii)

Mentioned as having been in the sitting room; his fate is uncertain after the gunfire.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/xiii)

Killed; Frenchman involved in the jewel theft scheme and double-cross.

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