{"product_id":"nightmare-town-dashiell-hammett-9780375701023","title":"Nightmare Town: Stories","description":"\"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us \u003cb\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/b\u003e. 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, \u003cb\u003eNightmare Town\u003c\/b\u003e is a treasury of tales from America's poet laureate of the dispossessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dashiell Hammett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375701028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375701023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.09h x 5.23w x 0.97d","brand":"Dashiell Hammett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946558619903,"sku":"9780375701023","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_eb6433fa-ac38-4be9-ada6-699cf3500b18.jpg?v=1681513836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nightmare-town-dashiell-hammett-9780375701023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}