Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest

An Impact Book. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 1,0 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 168 Seiten
EAN 9798903000371
Veröffentlicht Januar 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Impact Books
11,90 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Poisonville is rotten to the core - and someone has to clean it up. In Red Harvest, a nameless detective arrives in a corrupt mining town where crime, politics, and business are fused into a single violent machine. When he begins pulling at the threads, the entire city starts to unravel. Gangsters turn on each other, alliances collapse, and bodies pile up as the detective drives the town toward destruction in the name of justice. Dashiell Hammett's novel is pure hard-boiled momentum: brutal, unsentimental, and relentless. Every decision has consequences, and every action pushes the violence further. Written with sharp, economical prose and a ruthless sense of cause and effect, the story moves like a controlled explosion from first page to last. First published in 1929, Red Harvest changed crime fiction forever, replacing genteel puzzles with raw action and moral ambiguity.
This Impact Books edition restores a landmark American crime novel for readers who want their mysteries fast, hard, and uncompromising.

Portrait

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was an American novelist and short story writer who helped define the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. A former operative for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Hammett drew upon his investigative experience to create a new kind of crime narrative-unsentimental, tightly constructed, and grounded in the moral ambiguities of modern urban life.His major works, including Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, introduced iconic characters such as Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles. Hammett's prose style-spare, direct, and sharply dialogued-shifted crime fiction away from drawing-room puzzles toward the gritty realism of corruption, violence, and compromised justice.Beyond his literary achievements, Hammett was an outspoken political figure during the mid-twentieth century, a stance that led to legal and professional consequences during the McCarthy era. Nevertheless, his influence on American fiction, film noir, and modern detective storytelling remains profound.

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