Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961)

The Continental Detective Agency’s Op is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town “Poisonville,” and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, and hit men are all at play in Dashiell Hammett’s first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective. - Summary by Mark Nelson

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Chapter 1: A Woman in Green and a Man in Gray Mark Nelson
00:16:49
Play 02 Chapter 2: The Czar of Poisonville Mark Nelson
00:17:53
Play 03 Chapter 3: Dinah Brand Mark Nelson
00:17:05
Play 04 Chapter 4: Hurricane Street Mark Nelson
00:17:59
Play 05 Chapter 5: Old Elihu Talks Sense Mark Nelson
00:14:48
Play 06 Chapter 6: Whisper’s Joint Mark Nelson
00:14:13
Play 07 Chapter 7: That’s Why I Sewed You Up Mark Nelson
00:15:46
Play 08 Chapter 8: A Tip on Kid Cooper Mark Nelson
00:08:42
Play 09 Chapter 9: A Black Knife Mark Nelson
00:17:06
Play 10 Chapter 10: Crime Wanted—Male or Female Mark Nelson
00:11:47
Play 11 Chapter 11: The Swell Spoon Mark Nelson
00:14:04
Play 12 Chapter 12: A New Deal Mark Nelson
00:15:06
Play 13 Chapter 13: —$200.10— Mark Nelson
00:11:51
Play 14 Chapter 14: Max Mark Nelson
00:13:02
Play 15 Chapter 15: Cedar Hill Inn Mark Nelson
00:15:46
Play 16 Chapter 16: Exit Jerry Mark Nelson
00:09:55
Play 17 Chapter 17: Reno Mark Nelson
00:18:21
Play 18 Chapter 18: Painter Street Mark Nelson
00:07:24
Play 19 Chapter 19: The Peace Conference Mark Nelson
00:12:16
Play 20 Chapter 20: Laudanum Mark Nelson
00:15:48
Play 21 Chapter 21: The Seventeenth Murder Mark Nelson
00:12:50
Play 22 Chapter 22: The Ice Pick Mark Nelson
00:19:25
Play 23 Chapter 23: Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn Mark Nelson
00:14:11
Play 24 Chapter 24: Wanted Mark Nelson
00:13:09
Play 25 Chapter 25: Whiskeytown Mark Nelson
00:08:26
Play 26 Chapter 26: Blackmail Mark Nelson
00:13:24
Play 27 Chapter 27: Warehouses Mark Nelson
00:17:12