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Red Harvest
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781025386805
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Red Harvest is a seminal work of hardboiled detective fiction that defined a new era of crime literature. The story follows the Continental Op, a nameless private investigator who arrives in the industrial mining town of Personville-a place so riddled with corruption and violence that its inhabitants call it Poisonville. Hired by a local newspaper publisher who is murdered before they can meet, the Op finds himself in the middle of a brutal struggle for control between rival gangs and crooked officials.
Rather than merely solving a crime, the protagonist decides to clean up the town by turning the various criminal factions against one another. As the body count rises, the Op must navigate a landscape of betrayal, greed, and ruthless power plays. Dashiell Hammett's lean, unsentimental prose and gritty realism stripped away the gentility of the traditional mystery novel, replacing it with a visceral look at the American underworld. Red Harvest remains a landmark of the noir genre, celebrated for its cynical atmosphere, sharp dialogue, and its uncompromising portrayal of a society where law and order have completely collapsed.
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