Red Harvest
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Red Harvest is a 1929 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that helped define the noir genre with its violent tale of a corrupt town cleaned up by an unnamed detective.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
hardboiled novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | The Glass Key (influential but not direct adaptation) ⓘ |
| alternateName | Poisonville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Dashiell Hammett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresOrganization | Continental Detective Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serialized novel ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Alfred A. Knopf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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hardboiled fiction ⓘ noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
corrupt police chief
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corrupt politicians ⓘ local gangsters ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | regarded as classic of American crime fiction ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance |
helped define noir fiction conventions
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major work of hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStyle |
dialogue-driven
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terse prose ⓘ |
| hasSettingCharacteristic | corrupt mining town ⓘ |
| hasTone |
cynical
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dark ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| influenced |
hardboiled detective fiction
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noir genre ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | hardboiled school ⓘ |
| mainConflict | detective cleans up corrupt town ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | early novels of Dashiell Hammett ⓘ |
| precededBy | serialized stories in Black Mask magazine ⓘ |
| protagonist | The Continental Op NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | unnamed private detective ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| setIn | Personville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
moral ambiguity
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urban corruption ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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