"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop."--The New YorkerHere are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us

Nightmare Town: Stories

"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 descriptions 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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2000-09-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375701023

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2000-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375701023

Nightmare Town: Stories