Red Harvest (Version 2)


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

(4.5 stars; 10 reviews)

This novel from 1929 introduces Hammett's recurring and always unnamed character, the "Continental Op," who works for the Continental Detective Agency. (Hammett himself worked for the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency for seven years.) By some accounts the first detective novel in America to be classified as "hard-boiled" fiction, Red Harvest has appeared on several “best of” lists, including Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. - Summary by Verla Viera

Chapters

A Woman in Green and a Man in Gray 16:00 Read by James Hutchisson
The Czar of Poisonville 17:36 Read by James Hutchisson
Dinah Brand 15:27 Read by James Hutchisson
Hurricane Street 16:46 Read by James Hutchisson
Old Elihu Talks Sense 13:49 Read by James Hutchisson
Whisper's Joint 13:24 Read by James Hutchisson
That's Why I Sewed You Up 14:38 Read by James Hutchisson
A Tip on Kid Cooper 8:38 Read by James Hutchisson
A Black Knife 17:37 Read by James Hutchisson
Crime Wanted--Male or Female 11:11 Read by James Hutchisson
A Swell Spoon 13:48 Read by James Hutchisson
A New Deal 14:25 Read by James Hutchisson
$200.10 10:07 Read by Saje Wenzel
MAX 11:33 Read by Denis Gagné
Cedar Hill Inn 14:09 Read by Mokurai
Exit Jerry 7:56 Read by Mokurai
Reno 16:31 Read by Rusty Pistols
Painter Street 6:30 Read by Rusty Pistols
The Peace Conference 12:30 Read by Brian Fullen
Laudanum 15:46 Read by Brian Fullen
The Seventeenth Murder 13:16 Read by Brian Fullen
The Ice Pick 20:24 Read by Mark Wiskin
Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn 14:12 Read by Mark Wiskin
Wanted 14:14 Read by Mark Wiskin
Whiskeytown 10:03 Read by Brian Fullen
Blackmail 15:37 Read by Brian Fullen
Warehouses 19:56 Read by Brian Fullen

Reviews

Not bad


(3 stars)

Tough to keep up in who’s who bc there are so many characters. Most of the readers are good, but it’s too bad LibriVox doesn’t give readers info on how to pronounce names in a book. It would have been helpful to standardize on a pronunciation of Elihu. One reader pronounced Dinah as Deena, and at first I thought it was another character in the story. I think the first version of this book was better. There was only one reader and he was excellent.

Very Good


(5 stars)

Excellent story. Readers were good, however, I think the first Librivox version may be superior.

It’s a good one.


(5 stars)

Great mobster like story. Some terrific lines!