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Nightmare Town: Twenty Long Unavailable Stories
Nightmare Town Twenty Long Unavailable Stories Author: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, Sa... more »m 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 do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before" - Raymond Chandler. "Anybody who doesn't read Dashiell Hammett misses much of modern America" - Dorothy Parker. "As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time" - Ross Macdonald.« less