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Original Title:	Red Harvest
ISBN:	0752852612 (ISBN13: 9780752852614)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Continental Op #1
Characters:	The Continental Op, Elihu Willsson, Dinah Brand, Dick Foley

Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1) ebook | Pages: 224 pages

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I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel, with a detective as tough as Spade, Marlowe and Hammer put together, written in hard-as-nails prose, and set in a small West Coast city, a city with a heart of stone.

The City is Personville, and people call it “Poisonville,” but not because they are speaking with an accent. A few years before the book opens, mining tycoon and city boss Elihu Wilsson called in some thugs and goons to break a mining strike. Oh they broke it alright, but now these gangsters—with names like Lew Yard, “Whispers,” Pete the Finn—have carved Elihu’s little city into fiefdoms, and Boss Wilsson is not the boss anymore. Our detective, the nameless “Continental Op”--employed by the Continental Detective Agency—soon begins systematically destroying the rival gangs by sowing lies and discord among them. Sure, there is a murder the Op has to solve, but soon, in addition, we have stabbings, ambushes, furtive late night shootings and afternoon gun battles. And a good looking but slatternly gold digger too. Everything a reader could want.

At least you’d think so, wouldn’t you, and it would be enough for your average hard-boiled novel. But three-quarters of the way through, the Op begins to realize he likes all this killing, and after drinking too many laudanum-and-gins and dreaming some stone-crazy dope-head dreams, he wakes up to find a bloody ice pick in his hand. Now the Op has one last murder to solve, and he can't exclude himself as a suspect.

Red Harvest (1927) is certainly a genre classic, but it is also a great book on any terms. The prose is spare, the metaphors are crisp, and, although the narrative is often crowded with incident, the plot remains simple and clear and close to the bone.

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Title	:	Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
Author	:	Dashiell Hammett
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2003 by Orion (first published February 1st 1929)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Classics

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2.5 3 stars (I hope Dan and Kemper dont throw me out of the noir club before I even get in!)I feel as though I ought to have liked _Red Harvest_ more than I did. After all it was written by Dashiell Hammett, one of the fathers of noir fiction (perhaps more famous for The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and, like many of his books, became the source for numerous (often excellent) film adaptations. It has an interestingly conflicted protagonist and is chock full of killing, double crosses,

[9/10] - What's the rumpus? - Don Willson's gone to sit on the right hand of God, if God don't mind looking at bullet holes. - Who shot him? - Somebody with a gun. Donald Willson may have been the last 'straight man' in the city of Personville, better known as 'Poisonville' - a midwestern industrial town overrun by criminal gangs during the Prohibition. Editor of the local paper, Don has called on The Continental Op (the unnamed hero of the novel, a private eye employed by the Continental

The review is updated yet again on January 20, 2020.I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I went to

Ill give you three good reasonsfrom least to mostwhy you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel, with a detective as tough as Spade, Marlowe and Hammer put together, written in hard-as-nails prose, and set in a small West Coast city, a city with a heart of stone.The City is Personville, and people call it

The fountainhead of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "Unforgiven", and the "Untouchables". With spawns like that you can imagine the intensity and the death toll--I lost count after 17; I wasn't halfway through the story. A lone gunslinger rides into town...Cleaning up whether it wants it or not.Little did I know just how right I was at the quarter mark. This is so noir. You read it and you can hear the voiceover in your mind as it flows. There's a lot of booze, bootlegging, bribes, drugs, a

"He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster.Nietzsche, quoted by the Continental Op.Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by The Continental Op, an operative for the Continental Detective Agency, much of which is drawn from Hammetts experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road Massacre. Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of

In each fictional genre, (war, romance, western, mystery, etc) there are usually a few books which that genre's fans near-unanimously consider to be holy; sacred: icons, landmarks, milestones. In any genre's canon there are sometimes only as few as 2-3 of the very most-revered relics--invoking the greatest and most unqualified renown among fans--or (though it happens rarely) even just one. This is the case when it comes to hard-boiled American pulp crime fiction from the 1930s; this is the case