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Nightmare town : stories / Dashiell Hammett ; edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg, and Ed Gorman ; with an introduction by William F. Nolan

By:

Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, (1894-1961)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Knopf , 1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 396 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375401114

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

MYS HAM

LOC classification:

PS3515.A4347 A6 1999b

Summary: 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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Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067253

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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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