num_pages: 397
description: Elevating mystery fiction to the level of art, Hammett is one of the finest writers of the twentieth 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...
language: English
title: Nightmare Town: Twenty Long Unavailable Short Stories
titlecomplete: Nightmare Town: Twenty Long Unavailable Short Stories
characters: The Continental Op, Sam Spade, Steve Threefall, Alexander Rush
genres: Crime, Pulp, Classics, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Short Stories, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 2276
places: The United States of America, Izzard, Nevada
series: The Continental Op
publisher: Pan Macmillan