Red Harvest

'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...

'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...

Poisonville is rotten to the core - and someone has to clean it up. In Red Harvest, a nameless detective arrives in a corrupt mining town where crime, politics, and business are fused into a single violent machine. When he begins pulling at the threads, the entire city starts to unravel. Gangsters turn on each other, alliances collapse, and bodies pile up as the detective drives the town toward destruction in the name of justice. Dashiell Hammett's novel is pure hard-boiled momentum: brutal, unsentimental, and relentless. Every decision has consequences, and every action pushes the violence further. Written with sharp, economical prose and a ruthless sense of cause and effect, the story moves like a controlled explosion from first page to last. First published in 1929, Red Harvest changed crime fiction forever, replacing genteel puzzles with raw action and moral ambiguity. This Impact Books edition restores a landmark American crime novel for readers who want their mysteries fast, hard, and uncompromising.