Red Harvest

No, this book isn’t about farming in communist Russia. The Continental Op travels to Personville, USA following an invite from the editor of the local newspaper, but upon the Op’s arrival, he finds out that his host had been gunned down in cold blood.  Just another day in Poisonville.  When Personville’s most powerful man enlists…

The Thin Man

Nick and Nora Charles are staying at a swanky hotel in Manhattan when word arrives of a missing man.  Content to leave his old life behind as a private detective, Nick wants no part of the investigation.  However, it isn’t long before Nick is forced into the case and in order to deal with the…

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon Here we go. Book number two in my 25 crime-fiction classic list! After finishing this, I probably should’ve started with this one but honestly, who’s going to blame me for reading a Raymond Chandler novel first? Sam Spade and Miles Archer, private eye’s residing in San Fransisco, are hired by a…