Nightmare Town: Stories
Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett is a collection published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard on September 12, 2000, featuring 432 pages in English. This edition brings together twenty previously unavailable stories from the author renowned for his hard-boiled style, which has influenced countless writers. The narratives include a range of characters such as laconic detectives, lowlifes, and enigmatic women, all navigating a world filled with betrayal and dark mysteries.
Readers will encounter a variety of scenarios, including a man who wakes up in a small town shrouded in secrets and a woman who faces a harsh reality about her husband. The stories exemplify classic noir, characterized by sharp, hard-boiled descriptions and dialogue that often leads to violence. Nightmare Town serves as a showcase of Hammett’s skill in crafting intricate plots and vivid characters, making it a significant addition to the landscape of American fiction.
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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.
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