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Hammett, Dashiell; McCauley, Kirby, and Greenberg, Martin H., and Gorman, Edward J. (Joint Editors)
Nightmare Town: Stories
New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 1999 0375401113 / 9780375401114 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
Half-cloth, xvii, 396 pp.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Posthumously published. "Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story 'Ruffian's Wife.' 'His Brother's Keeper' is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. 'The Second-Story Angel' recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. 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, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced. / Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Marys County, Maryland, in 1894. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen and held several jobs thereafter -- messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator, and stevedore. He finally became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. World War I, in which he served as a sergeant, interrupted his sleuthing and injured his health. When he was finally discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. Subsequently, he turned to writing, and in the late 1920s he became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. During World War II, Mr. Hammett again served in the army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. He died in 1961. His books The Big Knockover, The Continental Op, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, and Woman in the Dark are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher.
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Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
New York Permabooks 1961 First edition thus Mass Market Paperback Good Collectible
M-4199. 206 pp.; 17 cm. First published, 1931. Good+. Wraps fine. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Nice vintage cover art. "1st printing, January 1961."
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Hammett, Dashiell; Parker, Robert B. (Introduction by)
Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance
New York Vintage Books; Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 1989 0679722653 / 9780679722656 Trade Paperback Very Good
xiv, 78 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1933. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels." - Publisher.
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