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The Big Sleep
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Like 'Red Harvest', this offers a hardboiled detective in a corrupt city with cynical prose.
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Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett (1927)
★3.87(53 ratings)
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
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Shares 'Red Harvest's' gritty noir style and complex, morally ambiguous characters.
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Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust
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Echoes 'Red Harvest's' dark themes and critique of societal corruption.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories
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Offers the same hardboiled crime and morally compromised characters as 'Red Harvest'.
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The L.A. Quartet
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Like 'Red Harvest', these novels delve into extreme corruption and violence in a city.
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