# Guy Cudner — Continental Op Stories character guide

> Guy Cudner in Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Guy Cudner, This Guy Cudner, Cudner

**First appearance:** 0057-women-politics-murder

## Snapshot

A suspect with a roadhouse habit and a four-a.m. homecoming, he's the kind of man whose alibi is a taxi ride nobody can verify.

## Who they are

Cudner is the shadow the Op's men keep losing, out at night with a man, home at four, a bad break for anyone trying to tail him off. He moves through the case as a name on a list and a shape in a doorway, the sort of suspect whose ordinary movements are the most suspicious thing about him. His failure to be where he should be is what keeps the Op's attention on him.

## In the story

### [Bodies Piled Up](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/bodies-piled-up)

Dangerous criminal known as 'The Darkman'; Orrett is hunting him; believed to have entered the wrong room and committed the murders.

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