Red
Harvest es una novela de Dashiell
Hammett, de 1920. Se
sigue la investigación de varios asesinatos en medio de una disputa laboral en
un corrupto pueblo minero en Montana.
Más abajo el argumento de la obra en inglés. En vocabulario buscamos el término moll.
Parker, del famoso dúo criminal Bonnie & Clyde
Plot
The Continental Op is called to Personville by the
newspaper publisher Donald Willsson, who is murdered before the Op has a chance
to meet with him. The Op begins to investigate Donald's murder and meets with
Donald's father, Elihu Willsson, a local industrialist who has found his
control of the city threatened by several competing gangs. Elihu had originally
invited those gangs into Personville to help him impose and then enforce the
end of a labor dispute.
The Op extracts a promise and a signed letter from
Elihu that pays the Continental Detective Agency, the Op's employer, $10,000 in
exchange for cleaning up the city and ridding it of the gangs. When the Op
solves Donald's murder, Elihu tries to break his promise on the deal, but the
Op will not allow him to do so.
In the meantime, the Op is spending time with Dinah
Brand, a possible love interest of the late Donald Willsson as well as a moll for Max
"Whisper" Thaler, a local gangster. Using information from Brand and
Personville's dishonest chief of police, Noonan, the Op manages to extract and
spread incriminating information to all of the warring parties. When the Op
reveals that a bank robbery was staged by the cops and one of the mobs to
discredit another mob, a gang war erupts.
But the Op wakes up the next morning to find Brand
stabbed to death with the ice pick the Op handled the previous evening. There
are no visible signs of forced entry. The Op becomes a suspect sought by the
police for Brand's murder, and one of his fellow operatives, Dick Foley, leaves
Personville because he is uncertain of the Op's innocence.
The Op, now wanted by the police, tempts Reno
Starkey, a gang lieutenant, to take on the last strong rival mob, led by Pete
the Finn. The last gangs are eliminated by pipe bombs, arson, gun fights, and
corrupt cops gunning down the survivors.
The Op tracks down Starkey, the only gang leader
still alive. Starkey is bleeding from four gunshot wounds, having just killed
mobster Whisper Thaler. Starkey reveals that he was the one who stabbed Brand,
and that she had collided with the semi-conscious Op so he looked like the
culprit.
The corrupt police chief Noonan and the gang leaders
are all dead. The Op blackmails Elihu Willsson into calling the governor, who
sends in the National Guard, declares martial law, and suspends the entire
police force. Elihu Willsson gets back his town, as promised—although not in
the way that he had anticipated. The Op returns to San Francisco, where the Old
Man (the chief of the Continental Detective Agency's office) gives him
"merry hell" for his activities. (The Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett.)
Vocabulario
Moll:
Moll, mole, or
molly in Australia and New Zealand,
is a usually pejorative or self-deprecating term for a woman of loose sexual
morals, or a prostitute.
"Moll" derives from "Molly", used as a euphemism
for "whore" or "prostitute". The Oxford English Dictionary
lists the earliest usage in a 1604 quote by Thomas Middleton: "None of
these common Molls
neither, but discontented and unfortunate gentlewomen."
Puberty
Blues was a 1981 movie
based on the autobiographical novel by Kathy
Lette and Gabrielle Carey about
their experiences of being 13-year-old girls on Sydney's southern beaches. In the novel, movie and television
series, girls were referred to as molls, bush pigs, top chicks, glam mags, sceggs, or grommets.
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