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"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: TradePaperback
- Author: Hammett, Dashiell
- ISBN: 9780375701023
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.09 x 0.97
- Number Of Pages: 432
- Publication Year: 2000
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Crime Fiction at its best
Gene L. - 5 years 10 months agoDashiell Hammett is known as the creator of the Crime Novel aka Noir Fiction. While Edgar Allan Poe may have created the detective story, Hammett brought mysteries and crime to the streets, where murders were most likely to occur, and populated his work with hard-boiled, dangerous characters much like those seen in real life. Hammett had the advantage of being a former detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency to help him provide the details needed to write such believable fiction. Famous for writing "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man", each the subject of multiple films, Hammett also wrote a number of short stories which are collected here, some of which include his most famous characters, Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and even the Thin Man.
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