Red Harvest (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Samuel Dashiell Hammett</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1894-1961) was an American author widely recognized as the trailblazer of hard-boiled detective fiction with his unsentimental breakneck storytelling chock-full of fast-paced slangy dialogue and abrupt explosive violence. Mining his own experiences as an operative of the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Pinkerton Detective Agency</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Hammett published his first novel </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Red Harvest</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> in 1929 wherein his Continental Op investigates a series of murders amid a labor dispute in Personville a corrupt Montana mining town known as Poisonville where no one should be trusted and everyone becomes a suspect - even the Continental Op himself.</span></p>