Book 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0375701028
ISBN13:9780375701023
Release Date:September 2000
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:430 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.2" x 8.1"
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