Red Harvest

'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...

About the author

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

Summary

'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times]

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Hammett
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.12.2012
• EAN: 9781409138082
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-3808-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Murder Room
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Classic crime, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives