Nightmare Town and Other Stories - Softcover

Hammett, Dashiell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627300279 ISBN 13: 9781627300278

Publisher: Stonewell Press, 2013

Synopsis

A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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.

From the Back Cover:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Stonewell Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1627300279
• ISBN 13: 9781627300278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394