Red Harvest (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Politics, Murder or homicide, Betrayal, 1920’s, West, U.S., Detectives, Politicians, Corruption, Private investigators, Montana
- Locales: Montana
Red Harvest, Hammett's first novel, is now generally regarded as one of his best. The case begins when the Continental Op is sent to the small Montana mining town of Personville (called “Poisonville” by those who know it) at the request of Donald Willsson, the publisher of the town's newspapers. Willsson, who had been using the newspapers as a platform from which to fight civic corruption, is murdered before the Op can meet him and find out what he was hired to do. The Op manages to persuade Elihu Willsson, Donald's father and the owner of most of the property in the town,...
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