Red Harvest

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. "An acknowledged literary landmark." --NY Times Book Review. "Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a 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 sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction." --The New York Times