Red Harvest

From a crime writer and "an acknowledged literary landmark," a PI heads west and battles corruption and a rising death toll in this 1920s classic mystery (The New York Times Book Review).

Summoned to Personville, the detective known as Continental Op discovers the real reason locals call the western mining town "Poisonville." The whole community has been divvied up into warring factions of gangsters and petty criminals. As the body count continues to rise, starting with the newspaperman w...