Red Harvest Themes

Did you notice that Red Harvest is overrun with men? Yeah. Novel's lousy with 'em. Dinah Brand is the only major female character, and there are only three other women who make very minor appearanc...

The town of Personville is overrun with crime from murder to gambling to blackmail to bootlegging to bribery to racketeering. And that's not even the end of the list. Trust us, we gave you the shor...

Rules are made to be broken in Red Harvest. The proliferation of criminality in the novel means that there's a complete lack of order in the town of Personville. The gangsters do what they like, wh...

Red Harvest is structured around a series of bloody confrontations as four local gangs compete for power. There are no less than twenty-five dead bodies that pile up over the course of the story, a...

Personville is no doubt one of those places that are going to hell in a handbasket. The legal institutions can't maintain order, and the men in charge fail to follow any consistent code of ethics....

Money will buy you a lot in the town of Poisonville. The wealthier you are, the more capital you are expected to run you name. Elihu controls most of the city since he's the richest man in town, bu...

What kind of murder story would Red Harvest be without a healthy serving of lies and deceit? Or should we say unhealthy? The Op is the mastermind behind the events that unfold as he pulls all the s...

Red Harvest is a man's world, but that doesn't mean that women have to move aside for the men. Quite the contrary, we do have one female character who exerts such a hold over the men that she prett...