The cover page is adapted from The Cleansing of Poisonville, a painting completed in 1927 by Fred Craft. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Red Harvest
Chapitres (28)
- Dedication 0:00
- I: A Woman in Green and a Man in Gray 0:05
- II: The Czar of Poisonville 16:04
- III: Dinah Brand 33:19
- IV: Hurricane Street 49:27
- V: Old Elihu Talks Sense 1:06:09
- VI: Whisper’s Joint 1:20:18
- VII: That’s Why I Sewed You Up 1:33:40
- VIII: A Tip on Kid Cooper 1:48:32
- IX: A Black Knife 1:56:39
- X: Crime Wanted—Male or Female 2:13:28
- XI: The Swell Spoon 2:24:52
- XII: A New Deal 2:38:31
- XIII: —$200.10— 2:52:47
- XIV: Max 3:04:14
- XV: Cedar Hill Inn 3:17:08
- XVI: Exit Jerry 3:32:29
- XVII: Reno 3:42:18
- XVIII: Painter Street 4:00:36
- XIX: The Peace Conference 4:07:32
- XX: Laudanum 4:19:25
- XXI: The Seventeenth Murder 4:34:56
- XXII: The Ice Pick 4:47:35
- XXIII: Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn 5:06:59
- XXIV: Wanted 5:20:29
- XXV: Whiskeytown 5:33:17
- XXVI: Blackmail 5:41:31
- XXVII: Warehouses 5:54:56
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The Continental Op, the nameless hard-drinking and quick-shooting detective, arrives at Personville—called “Poisonville” by its inhabitants—in response to a call from the local newspaper publisher Donald Willsson. But just as the Op arrives, Willsson is murdered in cold blood. The Op begins investigating the murder, only to be ensnared in the deep web of power, corruption, and lies that undergirds the rough-and-tumble town.
Red Harvest was first published as a series of short stories in Black Mask magazine before Hammett rewrote them and linked them together to form this novelization. It’s therefore the first novel to feature the Continental Op, the larger-than-life character who would go on to become the prototype for every hard-boiled, emotionally stunted, fedora-wearing detective cliché to grace media ever since.
The novel’s influence has been widely recognized, with Time magazine placing it in its list of 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and authors for a century to come riffing on the stereotype created by the Continental Op.