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Red Harvest

Red Harvest

HardboiledNoir
Pages
224
Published
1929
Language
English

Synopsis

The Continental Op is hired by a desperate mining magnate to purge the gangs and corruption strangling his town. What starts as a single murder investigation spirals into a ruthless campaign of elimination as the Op systematically dismantles the criminal underworld, one by one, until only the truth of who hired him remains.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

GrittyDarkTense
Anti-HeroMorally GreyRevenge

Genres

Hardboiled Noir Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller

About the author

D
Dashiell Hammett

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.

Characters

The Continental OpProtagonist
Robert AlburySupporting
All characters in Red Harvest