![]() And then Nick Fuller’s recent review of that book - linked below - did to its reputation what the Continental Op does to Personville herein, and my interest in revisiting it was well and truly piqued. Even in the throes of castigation, however, I acknowledged the “dense and amazing” plotting of his debut novel Red Harvest (1929), which had a startling effect on this young man when finding my feet in the genre in the early 2000s. In the early days of this blog, to indicate my tastes, I brazenly avowed that certain authors were unlikely ever to be reviewed here bang in the middle of that list, fresh from disappointments with his short fiction, was Dashiell Hammett. ![]()
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