Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett

Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett

Elevating mystery fiction to the level of art, Hammett is one of the finest writers of the twentieth century: Nightmare Town is a stunning collection of twenty short stories with an introduction by Colin Dexter. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story, 'Ruffian's Wife'. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town Hammett shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils...

"'Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever doHe wrotes scenes that seemed never to have been written before' Raymond Chandler"

Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland in 1894. He worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and served in both the Great War and the Second World War. He turned to writing in the late 1920s and his novels include The Thin Man, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest.

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ISBN 13	9780330481090
ISBN 10	0330481096
Title	Nightmare Town
Author	Dashiell Hammett
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2001-04-20
Number of pages	432
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