Description
Title: Nightmare Town: Stories
Author: Dashiell Hammett
ISBN: 9780375701023
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 428
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : “Hammett’s pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original–packs a wallop.”–The New Yorker Here are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us
The Maltese Falcon. Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double- and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled s to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, whip-smart, impassioned,
Nightmare Town is a treasury of tales from America’s poet laureate of the dispossessed.
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