A short biography
The Continental Op
Blood Money
Red Harvest
The Dain Curse
The Maltese Falcon:
The novel
The movie
The 75th anniversary
The Glass Key
The Thin Man
Woman in the Dark
The short story collections
The novels in one
volume
Books about Hammett
Chronology of Hammett's fiction
Hammett's army days
"Dashiell Hammett Place"
Hammett's Post Street
apartment:
A photo tour (2005)
Declared a
landmark (2005)
The Flood Building
Links to other Hammett sites
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This site is dedicated to all the people like Don Herron, Bill Arney, Richard Layman, William F. Nolan, Josephine Hammett Marshall, Julie M. Rivett, Steven Marcus, Joe Gores and others who have kept 1920s San Francisco in the here and now.
Special thanks to Vince Emery for his many helpful contributions to this website.
Entire website copyright 2003, 2004 & 2005 by Mike Humbert.
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The Op systematically turns faction against faction, and they obligingly begin to wipe each other out. As the bloodbath escalates, he discovers – to his own horror – that he’s actually enjoying the carnage.
Red Harvest first appeared in Black Mask, serialized over four issues, spanning October 1927 to January 1928. Hammett reworked it somewhat for hardback publication in February 1929.
There has never been a movie version of Red Harvest, although several movies have used its plot (without giving credit). These include the samurai adventure Yojimbo, and the spaghetti western Fistful of Dollars. Probably the closest clone of all was Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis, which, like Red Harvest, was set in the late 1920s.
2) Pocket, 1943 (paperback)
3) Perma, 1956 (paperback)
4) Penguin, 1963 (paperback)
6) Vintage, 1972 (paperback)
7) Large Type edition (details unknown)
8) Pan, 1977 (paperback)
10) Vintage Crime, 1989 (trade paperback)
11) Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992 (trade paperback)
13) Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2004 (trade paperback)
2) World War II Armed Forces edition (paperback)
2) Isis, 2000, Read by William Dufris