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“Red Harvest is one of two serialised novels featuring the Continental Op. The Op is a nameless PI who works for a Pinkerton-type agency called the Continental Detective Agency. In Red Harvest, he is brought into this town called Personville, which he calls Poisonville. There are lots of different criminal elements working there. The Op is sent to meet with the one honest person in this town—the newspaper publisher—who is then killed. Then he’s hired by the newspaper publisher’s father, the wealthiest guy in town, to find out who killed his son. He figures that out pretty quickly, but decides that’s not enough. He wants to clean up this town. He’ll do whatever it takes to flush out all the criminal activity, hitting one gang after another, manipulating them to kill each other, which is how you get the title. There are lots of deaths in Red Harvest.” Read more...
The Best 20th-century American Detective Novels
Dave Zeltserman, Novelist
