Wikisource:WikiProject Red Harvest
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett was first published in 1929, so it will not be public domain in the US until Public Domain Day 2025. The serialization, however, was published in Black Mask magazine in four parts from November 1927 to February 1928 and can be scanned and transcribed just as soon as someone can get their hands on copies of these issues.
Four-part serialization
[edit]The 1927 and 1928 works comprising WikiProject Red Harvest are:
- "The Cleansing of Poisonville", November 1927 (Vol. 10, No. 9)
- "Crime Wanted—Male or Female", December 1927 (Vol. 10, No. 10)
- "Dynamite", January 1928 (Vol. 10, No. 11)
- "The 19th Murder", February 1928 (Vol. 10, No. 12)
Brooks Hefner at James Madison University explains that copies of Black Mask issues are rare because they were not often preserved by Black Mask readers, unlike issues of contemporary sci-fi magazines. Brooks says that the Library of Congress did not microfilm their Black Mask issues, owing to the fact that surviving copies are rare and their microfilming process was destructive. It's not obvious from the LOC catalog which issues they actually have in their collections.
JMU has the November issue—containing Part 1 ("The Cleansing of Poisonville"). All others are absent from their collections.
Optional
[edit]Organize with folks interested in having the novelization available as soon as legally possible: January 1, 2025. (The novel itself isn't very hard to come by.)