Author: Hammett, Dashiel [1894 - 1961]
Title: RED HARVEST
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 1st book edition, 1st printing (Layman A1.1.a). Red cloth binding decorated in black & yellow. Green topstain. No dust jacket. Book now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper, housed in a custom dark blue cloth slipcase. [10], 270, [6] pp. T.p. printed in red & black. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4" Red Harvest is a novel 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). 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. 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.'" The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror.". Slight lean, backstrip sunned. A VG - VG+ copy.

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