# Gyp Rainey — Continental Op Stories character guide

> Gyp Rainey in Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Gyp Rainey, Gyp, Rainey

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

## Who they are

A criminal involved in underworld activities.

## In the story

### [Chapter VI: The Killing of Slim Vogel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/vi)

Present at the scene; claims to know nothing about the killing.

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

Captured by Milk River at the canyon hideout, sullen and refuses to talk.

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

Locked in the cellar with the immigrants; his hypodermic needle and cocaine are confiscated.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/xv)

Imprisoned, suffering from drug withdrawal, denies killing Mark Nisbet despite the Op's interrogation.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/continental_op_stories_se/chapters/xvi)

Confesses to killing Nisbet on Bardell's orders, implicating Bardell in a plot against Peery.

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