# Mickey Linehan — Red Harvest character guide

> Mickey Linehan in Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mickey, Michael Linehan

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

## Snapshot

A fellow Continental operative with a comedian's red face and a taste for needling the Op, sent to Personville to help stir the pot.

## Who they are

Mickey Linehan works the same agency as the Op, a wisecracking professional who grins across his broad red face while complaining that nobody tells him anything. He is the Op's sounding board and occasional legman, useful for tailing suspects and trading sardonic asides about the mounting body count. His presence keeps the Op tethered to the outside world even as Personville's blood fever starts to take hold.

## 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 Pete the Finn.

### [XVI: Exit Jerry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xvi-exit-jerry)

Calls the narrator to report that his and Dick Foley's surveillance is together at Elihu Willsson's house.

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

Mentioned as being on Pete the Finn's trail; asked to assist Dick Foley in the investigation.

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

Reports Dan Rolff's sighting; gathers information on Charles Proctor Dawn.

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

Reported to be in police custody, being grilled.

### [XXVI: Blackmail](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xxvi-blackmail)

Picks up the narrator after the confrontation; discusses the riot, the deaths, and the narrator's theories about the murders.

### [XXVII: Warehouses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_harvest_se/chapters/xxvii-warehouses)

Accompanies the Narrator in the search, calls for an ambulance, and later brings news to Ogden.

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