Red Harvest (Version 2)


(4.2 Sterne; 5 Bewertungen)

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 (6 hr 16 min)

Bewertungen

Not bad


(3 Sterne)

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 Sterne)

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