Red Harvest

"Red Harvest" is an early novel by Dashiell Hammett, written in the style of a noir detective story. The main character is an employee of the Continental Detective Agency, who arrives in the town of Burgsville at the request of the publisher of the local newspaper, Wilson. However, upon finding him dead, the private detective decides to stay and bring order to this decaying city and cleanse it of crime. Rival gangster factions, corrupt police, the triumph of the mafia, indestructible evil that fears neither bullets nor court verdicts, and an ever-increasing number of deaths around... How to overcome darkness in this city and remain untainted before morality and the criminal code? After all, lawlessness, even in the name of good, can have horrifying consequences...