Oh they broke it alright, but now these gangsters-with names like Lew Yard, “Whispers,” Pete the Finn-have carved Elihu’s little city into fiefdoms, and Boss Wilsson is not the boss anymore. A few years before the book opens, mining tycoon and city boss Elihu Wilsson called in some thugs and goons to break a mining strike. The City is Personville, and people call it “Poisonville,” but not because they are speaking with an accent. If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection.I’ll give you three good reasons-from least to most-why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel, with a detective as tough as Spade, Marlowe and Hammer put together, written in hard-as-nails prose, and set in a small West Coast city, a city with a heart of stone. 'The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner.'.

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