Nightmare Town
by Dashiell HammetKirby McCauley (Editor)Martin Greenberg (Editor)Ed Gorman (Editor)William F. Nolan (Introduction by)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780375401114
Hardcover|9780375401114
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Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author ofThe Maltese Falconand the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel" recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study forThe Thin Mansends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. InNightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.
| ISBN-13 | 9780375401114 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0375401113 |
| Weight | 1.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.50 x 1.75 x 10.00 In |
| List Price | $25.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 432 pages |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Published On | 1999-08-31 |
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