Nightmare Town: Stories
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ISBN10: 0375701028
ISBN13: 9780375701023
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Sep 12 2000
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.09
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375701023
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Sep 12 2000
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.09
Language: English
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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