- Fiction, Private investigators, Continental Op (Fictitious character), Fiction in English
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and plot-driven.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 225
- Publisher
- Librarie Gallimard, Distributed by Pocket Books, Edicions 62
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- German, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780785926542
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American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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