Booze
It's not every novel whose central symbol is booze. We're talking bootlegged moonshine, folks—and a lot of it. Red Harvest is set during the Prohibition era (which lasted from 1919 to 1933) when...
Blood
Did you notice there's an awful lot of blood being spilled throughout the novel, all in the name of justice? In fact, so many people die over the course of the novel that we become almost numb to a...