"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop."--The New YorkerIn Nightmare Town, Black Lizard presents 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 awakes in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. A half-wit prize fighter reveals a brother's betrayal. Here is noir in the making: hard-boiled descriptions reminiscent of Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, whip-smart, impassioned, Nightmare Town is an answered prayer: a treasury of tales from America's poet laureate of the dispossessed.
Authors
Dashiell Hammett
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2000-09-12
- Publisher: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780375701023
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