Red Harvest
Kindle Edition
Start Publishing PD · Ebook · October 16, 2025
Welcome to Personville—locals call it "Poisonville"—a town so corrupt it’s choking on its own blood.
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- Who it’s for
- A lean, relentless noir read where cleaning up corruption only makes the violence spread.
- Genres
- Hard-Boiled Mystery, Private Eye Fiction, Crime Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing PD, October 16, 2025
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Welcome to Personville—locals call it "Poisonville"—a town so corrupt it’s choking on its own blood. When the Continental Op, a hard-nosed private detective, arrives to clean things up, he plunges into a storm of gangsters, crooked politicians, and double-crossing dames. But the deeper he digs, the bloodier the harvest becomes.
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With relentless pacing, razor-sharp dialogue, and a moral compass as gray as the skies over Poisonville, Red Harvest is a brutal masterpiece of American noir. This is Dashiell Hammett at his most raw and ruthless, a gritty tale of justice torn from the barrel of a gun. If you like your heroes uncompromising and your crime fiction mean, lean, and soaked in danger—Red Harvest delivers a bulletproof classic.
Noir Without Niceties
A lean, relentless noir read where cleaning up corruption only makes the violence spread.
Come here for
- A hard-nosed private eye in a town tangled with gangsters and crooked politics
- Razor-sharp dialogue and justice with a distinctly gray edge
Expect
- Double-crosses, danger, and a bloodier trail as the detective digs deeper
- An uncompromising mood and a moral compass that refuses easy answers
Where it sits
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 99% |
|---|---|
| Private Eye Fiction | 46% |
| Crime Fiction | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Dashiell Hammett
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- October 16, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy