Dashiell hammett red harvest

For other uses, see Red Harvest (disambiguation).

1929 novel by Dashiell Hammett

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 i