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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Red Harvest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Dashiell Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, is an enjoyable book to read because it is entertaining, but, at the same time, worthy of analysis. |
 | | In "Red Harvest," the Op is summoned to Personville (known locally as Poisonville), where he is engaged by newspaper publisher Donald Willson, who is murdered before the agent has an opportunity to meet him. |
 | | Not just a murder mystery, "Red Harvest" pursues broader themes: how corruption and greed poisons the inhabitants of Poisonville, how the Op is able to thwart the ambitions of various criminals by playing their own unprincipled game, and how his own abandonment of professional code nearly destroys the detective himself. |
| www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679722610 (1614 words) |
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