In the canon
Red Harvest
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1929
- Pages
- Pages 220
They call it Poisonville, the miners who worked here before the copper bosses handed it to gangsters, and Dashiell Hammett takes the joke literally: by the time his detective is done, its streets run with blood he arranged himself. Hired to solve one murder, the Continental Op stays to dismantle an entire criminal machine, feeding each gang boss a lie about the others until Personville does his killing for him.
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