# Dick Foley — Red Harvest character guide

> Dick Foley in Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dick, XX Laudanum Dick Foley

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-hurricane-street

## Snapshot

A Continental operative known for quiet, patient surveillance, the man in the hired car at the corner when the Op needs eyes on a house.

## Who they are

Dick Foley is the agency's surveillance specialist, a low-profile operative who parks his hired car where he's told and watches doors without being noticed. He is the Op's silent backup in a city where every ally is provisional and every street corner might hide a gunman. His steady, unglamorous work is the counterweight to the Op's escalating improvisations as Personville comes apart.

## In the story

### [XV: Cedar Hill Inn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xv-cedar-hill-inn)

Arrives as backup; assigned to shadow Lew Yard.

### [XVIII: Painter Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xviii-painter-street)

Had been tailing Lew Yard; the narrator reassigns him to watch Willsson's house for Whisper Thaler.

### [XXI: The Seventeenth Murder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xxi-the-seventeenth-murder)

Tasked by the narrator to investigate the alibis of Whisper, Dan Rolff, and Bill Quint.

### [XXIII: Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xxiii-mr-charles-proctor-dawn)

Reports Bill Quint's departure and news of hijacking; tails Helen Albury.

### [Wanted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xxiv-wanted)

Visits the narrator, suspicious of his guilt, and leaves after a tense exchange.

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