Red Harvest Quotes

"I've got a mean disposition. Attempted assassinations make me mad." (8.46)

"I want a man to clean up this pig-sty of a Poisonville for me, to smoke out the rats, little and big. It's a man's job. Are you a man?""What's the use getting poetic about it?" I growled. "If you'...

"He ought to know what a swell chance he's got of hanging a one-legged rap like that on me.""He's not figuring on proving anything in court," I said."No?""You're to be knocked off resisting arrest,...

To beat the miners he had to let his hired thugs run wild. When the fight was over he couldn't get rid of them. He had given his city over to them and he wasn't strong enough to take it away from t...

"The Continental's got rules against taking bonuses or rewards," I said. (7.78)

For forty years old Elihu Wilson […] had owned Personville, heart, soul, skin and guts. He was president and majority stock-holder of the Personville Mining Corporation, ditto of the First Nation...

"How do you like our city?""I haven't seen enough of it to know." That was a lie. I had. (1.15)

I went away wondering why the green toe of her left slipper was dark and damp with something that could have been blood. (1.38)