Nightmare Town
05 January 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of England’s greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town end ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. A...
Details
05 January 2012416 pages
9781447219576Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘A legend of a different kind: exemplary, not only of a certain kind of American fiction, but also of a certain kind of American life’ Margaret Atwood
‘As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time’ Ross Macdonald
