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Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
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Description for Red Harvest
Paperback. 'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
'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...
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409138082
SKU
V9781409138082
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About Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.
Reviews for Red Harvest
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow
INDEPENDENT
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature
NEW YORK TIMES
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story
SCOTSMAN
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used
Raymond Chandler The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters
NEW YORKER
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction
NEW YORK TIMES
...a literary classic dealing with corruption by one of the masters of crime fiction
CATHOLIC HERALD
INDEPENDENT
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature
NEW YORK TIMES
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story
SCOTSMAN
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used
Raymond Chandler The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters
NEW YORKER
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction
NEW YORK TIMES
...a literary classic dealing with corruption by one of the masters of crime fiction
CATHOLIC HERALD