Details

ISBN-10: 0375701028
ISBN-13: 9780375701023
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publish Date: 09/12/2000
Dimensions: 8.09" L, 5.23" W, 0.97" H

Nightmare Town: Stories

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Price: $16.95

Overview

“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.

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Reviews
"Nightmare Town, with its crystalline prose as spare as Hammett himself, is a welcome treat." –The Baltimore Sun

"Hammett's work carries an authenticity and raw power that few writers, before or since, have been able to equal." –The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Hammett's legacy as a giant of crime fiction lives on. The stories are gritty and realistic, full of crisp, sparse dialogue. . . . Like the sting of whiskey as it goes down and the pungent smell of a strong cigar, Hammett's stories and characters don't fade quickly." –The Columbus Dispatch

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Details

ISBN-10: 0375701028
ISBN-13: 9780375701023
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publish Date: 09/12/2000
Dimensions: 8.09" L, 5.23" W, 0.97" H
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