Red Harvest

Red Harvest
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Dashiell Hammett
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Detective
Published	February 1, 1929 (Alfred A. Knopf)
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Followed by	The Dain Curse

Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency).^[2] The plot follows the Op's investigation of several murders amid a labor dispute in a corrupt Montana mining town. Some of the novel was inspired by the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute in the mining town of Butte, Montana.^[3]

Time included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005, noting that, in the Continental Op, Hammett "created the prototype for every sleuth who would ever be called 'hard-boiled.'"^[4] The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror."^[5]

^ "Red Harvest (publishing information)". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
^ Serafin, Steven R.; Bendixen, Alfred, eds. (2003) [1999]. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Continuum. p. 264. ISBN 9780826417770.
^ Panek, LeRoy Lad (2004). Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to 'The Maltese Falcon'. MacFarland & Company. p. 122. ISBN 9780786419623.
^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (2005-10-31). "Time's Critics Pick the 100 Best Novels 1923 to the Present". Time. Archived from the original on October 21, 2005. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
^ "Books: Gide Fad". Time. 1944-04-06. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved 2010-09-26.

[projectGrh-1] "Red Harvest (publishing information)". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved July 2, 2017.

[2] Serafin, Steven R.; Bendixen, Alfred, eds. (2003) [1999]. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Continuum. p. 264. ISBN 9780826417770.

[3] Panek, LeRoy Lad (2004). Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to 'The Maltese Falcon'. MacFarland & Company. p. 122. ISBN 9780786419623.

[4] Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (2005-10-31). "Time's Critics Pick the 100 Best Novels 1923 to the Present". Time. Archived from the original on October 21, 2005. Retrieved 2008-10-19.

[5] "Books: Gide Fad". Time. 1944-04-06. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved 2010-09-26.

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