Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

Has it happened with you as well that a highly praised book just fails to entertain you as much as it did others? (How do you feel then?) Hammett’s Red Harvest is about a Continental Op who arrives at Personville to solve a murder mystery. The eerie description of Personville and the dialogues really got me interested when I started the book, but as the story moved ahead I began to lose interest. Perhaps it’s not my type. I am more into the noir fiction of Jim Thompson and Derek Raymond. They are my favourites.