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A seminal work of the hard-boiled detective genre, Red Harvest (1929) sees the introduction of the Continental Op, a frequent character in the Dashiell Hammett’s fiction and a clear precursor to the morally ambiguous detectives of later works. This gritty and chaotic story is a masterpiece of action and moral conflict, exploring how the detective himself can become tainted by the pervasive corruption of the world he seeks to fix.
The narrative is set in the fictional Personville, which locals have dubbed "Poisonville" due to its pervasive corruption and control by rival gangs. When the Op arrives to meet a newspaper publisher who is murdered before their meeting, he takes on the mission of cleaning up the city. Rejecting traditional detective work, the Op employs a ruthless and unconventional strategy: he orchestrates a full-scale gang war, stirring up chaos and violence to force the truth to the surface.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
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