![]() ![]() And because of the infighting between Elihu and the others, Donald was probably killed. The important ones out of these are Pete the Finn, Lew Yard, Max Thaler and the chief of police Noonan. He also discovers that Donald’s father Elihu used to own the town and all the powerful people in it, but in recent times, outsiders have come and claimed a bit of his turf. He leaves Donald Wilsson’s house and while walking back to his hotel he discovers that Donald Wilsson has been shot and killed. ![]() The Op notices that there is blood in her shoes. Then she leaves the house, goes somewhere and comes back after a while and tells the Op that her husband won’t be coming back that night. When the Op arrives to meet Donald, he discovers that Donald has gone out. The first thing our hero discovers is that Personville is called Poisonville by its natives. In ‘Red Harvest’, our hero, the Continental Op, is hired by a newspaper editor called Donald Wilsson to do some work for him at the town of Personville. He is described as ‘short, squat and as stubborn as a mule’ and ‘his only enthusiasm was doing his job’. ![]() It features one of his most famous creations – the unnamed narrator who works in the Continental Detective Agency and who is referred to as the Continental Op. So I picked up ‘Red Harvest’ to read first. I thought I will read a crime novel for Carl’s RIP event and while looking at old books that I had in boxes, I discovered that there were a couple of Dashiell Hammett novels that I haven’t read yet. ![]()
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