Red Harvest
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Publisher Description
Red Harvest is Dashiell Hammett’s first detective novel published in 1929. The story follows ‘The Continental Op’ who is called from San Francisco to Personville to meet with Donald Willsson who is murdered before Op arrives. Op finds himself embroiled in labor disputes, corruption, mobsters and gang wars.
Red Harvest has served as inspiration for many film noir classics including Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood as the ‘Man with No Name’.
~Made Time’s All-Time 100 Novels List
-Nobel Prize-winning French author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror."
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An unnamed detective arrives in Personville (nicknamed "Poisonville" by its residents) too late to help his client, who lies shot dead in an alley. It doesn't take the detective long to figure out that this murder is the least of Poisonville's problems, and he decides to stay and clean up the nasty company town on his own. Despite this somewhat confusing story line, Richard Ferrone provides lucid and compelling narration and perfectly captures Hammett's tough guy wit. His rendition of gangster Max "Whisper" Thaler is among the many highlights: he provides a voice that is clear but hoarse and totally lives up to the character's name. Ferrone also gives Whisper's girlfriend a classic bad dame voice that all but invites trouble, and provides corrupt police chief Noonan with a jovial Irish brogue that masks evil intentions. Although the tale is hopelessly convoluted and overpopulated, listeners will have great fun rooting for the unnamed detective to get out of town alive. A Vintage paperback.
