
A seminal work of the hard-boiled detective genre, Red Harvest (1929) sees the introduction of the Continental Op, a frequent character in the Dashiell Hammett's fiction and a clear precursor to the morally ambiguous detectives of later works. This gritty and chaotic...

A seminal work of the hard-boiled detective genre, Red Harvest (1929) sees the introduction of the Continental Op, a frequent character in the Dashiell Hammett's fiction and a clear precursor to the morally ambiguous detectives of later works. This gritty and chaotic...