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Sinossi
Il Continental Op, investigatore privato, giunge a Personville, oscura cittadina della profonda provincia americana. L'ha chiamato Donald Willsson, noto direttore dei giornali locali e figlio del vecchio Elihu, patron della comunità. Ma Willsson viene assassinato la sera stessa del suo arrivo. Il Continental Op inizia a indagare, e in breve scopre che quella non è una sonnacchiosa cittadina, come appare, ma una grossa "torta" spartita tra i clan di una potente mafia locale. E poiché il giornale di Willsson era impegnato in una campagna moralizzatrice, il movente del delitto sembra fin troppo chiaro. Ma la spiegazione non convince il Continental Op, che presto si troverà impegnato in un compito ben più ambizioso della cattura dj un assassino di provincia. Romanzo dalla trama serrata e ossessiva, "Raccolto rosso" è una delle testimonianze più riuscite del genere hard boiled, una vera partita a scacchi tra il Continental Op e i suoi nemici.
- ISBN: 8804731192
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 240
- Data di uscita: 19-10-2020
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I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest : 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars , 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars , and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel, with a det Leggi tutto
Originally published in 1929, Red Harvest is a classic crime novel that helped established the hard-boiled genre. This is most definitely not a polite, parlor mystery where most of the blood is spilled off of the page. As the title suggests, this book is filled with mayhem and the bodies are falling Leggi tutto
Published in 1929, Red Harvest is the first of five classic novels written by Dashiell Hammett, inventor of the "hard-boiled" school of fiction. Since there are dozens of reviews already posted here, I will take a different slant, citing how quotes from nineteenth century German philosopher Friedric Leggi tutto
An operative from the Continental Detective Agency is summoned to Personville (a/k/a Poisonville) by a crusading newspaper publisher, but the man is murdered before the Continental Op can meet with him. The Op quickly learns that Poisonville has a crime problem that would make Gotham City seem like
I've always been the dissenting opinion on this one. Yeah, it was influential, but since Hammett himself was copying John Carroll Daly's new hardboiled style, maybe we should give him a bit of the credit. Cynical and definitely hardboiled, Hammett’s Red Harvest is missing the one ingredient which mi Leggi tutto
So far this is my least favorite of Hammett's books. <--and yet, it has a sequel? Hmmm. I can't say I'm crazy about this particular detective (the unnamed Continental Operative) but there was certainly a large cast of colorful characters. The gist is this guy from a detective agency gets hired by the Leggi tutto
Primera novela de Hammett en la que aparece el detective de la Continental. A quien le gusten los westerns, le gustará esta novela, porqué, en cierta manera, lo parece mucho. Un personaje principal muy bien caracterizado. Hammett's first novel in which the Continental Op appears. If you like westerns, Leggi tutto
★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “The reader knows a great deal. He has taste and wisdom, or he wouldn’t be reading.” -- John D. MacDonald. I often think about the quote above and how much has changed since JDM wrote those words in the 1974. The wisdom part is still true. If nothing else, constant reading grows vocabulari Leggi tutto
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