Elihu hired some thugs to suppress the unhappy workers in an event mirrored by the Anaconda Road massacre cited above. Quint tells him that Donald's father, industrialist Elihu Wilsson, had run the town for decades without incident until World War I, when the miners that were the lifeblood of the town's industry decided to go on strike. He also learns about the history of Personville from Bill Quint. Later that night, the Continental Op learns from a crowd at City Hall that Donald Wilsson is dead. There is, however, what appears to be blood on the wife's green shoes. When the wife returns 45 minutes later, there's still no sign of her husband. She tells the Continental Op that Wilsson is running late and drives off after being summoned to a phone call. Wilsson's wife answers the door in a green dress and green shoes. The Continental Op arrives in Personville-referred to by locals as "Poisonville"-and makes plans to meet with Wilsson. The detective is only ever referred to as the Continental Op because he is a member of the Continental Detective Agency, a group loosely based on the real-life Pinkerton Detective Agency of which Hammett himself was an operative. The story opens as Donald Wilsson, a newspaper publisher in the mining town of Personville, calls upon an unnamed detective who is also the narrator of the book.
In 2005, Time magazine named Red Harvest one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
Urn:oclc:869474525 Scandate 20111114140628 Scanner Harvest (1929), a detective novel by American author Dashiell Hammett, is loosely based on the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute that escalated after a mining company fired upon its own miners who were on strike, wounding sixteen men and killing another.
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