Red Harvest - Murder Room (Paperback)

His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow - INDEPENDENT

He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer - BOSTON GLOBE

Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature - NEW YORK TIMES

One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story - SCOTSMAN

He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used - Raymond Chandler

The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters - NEW YORKER

The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction - NEW YORK TIMES

...a literary classic dealing with corruption by one of the masters of crime fiction - CATHOLIC HERALD