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Milo March Mysteries #1
Hangman's Harvest
Hangman's Harvest is a taut, fast-paced thriller that plunges readers into the morally ambiguous world of espionage, deceit, and sudden death. Writing under his pseudonym M.E. Chaber, Kendell Foster Crossen delivers another electrifying entry in his celebrated Milo March series — the urbane insurance investigator who doubles as an intelligence agent when danger calls. In this razor-sharp tale, March finds himself navigating a web of betrayal that stretches from the shadowy backstreets of Europe to the political undercurrents of postwar America.
Chaber's storytelling is pure noir crisp dialogue, tightly wound suspense, and a protagonist whose cool intellect masks a deep sense of honor and vulnerability. As bodies fall and loyalties shift, March must uncover a conspiracy where everyone is expendable and the line between justice and survival blurs into darkness.
More than a thriller, Hangman's Harvest captures the existential pulse of the 1950s espionage era — cynical yet stylish, brutal yet deeply human. For fans of Raymond Chandler, Eric Ambler, or Ross Macdonald, this novel showcases Chaber at his a craftsman of lean prose and relentless tension, whose stories reveal the price of duty in a dangerous age.
Chaber's storytelling is pure noir crisp dialogue, tightly wound suspense, and a protagonist whose cool intellect masks a deep sense of honor and vulnerability. As bodies fall and loyalties shift, March must uncover a conspiracy where everyone is expendable and the line between justice and survival blurs into darkness.
More than a thriller, Hangman's Harvest captures the existential pulse of the 1950s espionage era — cynical yet stylish, brutal yet deeply human. For fans of Raymond Chandler, Eric Ambler, or Ross Macdonald, this novel showcases Chaber at his a craftsman of lean prose and relentless tension, whose stories reveal the price of duty in a dangerous age.
217 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2025
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August 26, 2020
A pleasant little soft-boiled romp, only slightly-soiled by a too-noir ending. Recommended to (I think it's better) to Shell Scott fans, unless you can't take your detectives without a mega-side orders of mammaries.
May 16, 2022
Hangman’s Harvest has our protagonist loaned out from the company he works for (does not say as what), to a small coastal California town full of gangsters and corrupt politicians. It seems a local group of businessmen and women want to clean up their city. They want March to find only the crooked folks in government. Once they can ferret out those dishonest souls, they can push the crime lords out of town.
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