Nightmare town : stories / Dashiell Hammett ; edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg, and Ed Gorman.

"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 Seco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961
Other Authors: McCauley, Kirby (Editor)
Greenberg, Martin Harry (Editor)
Gorman, Edward (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1999.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Continental Op (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > California > San Francisco > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Genre:
Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Physical Description:xvii, 396 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Nightmare town
  • House dick
  • Ruffian's wife
  • The man who killed Dan Odams
  • Night shots
  • Zigzags of treachery
  • The assistant murderer
  • His brother's keeper
  • Two sharp knives
  • Death on pine street
  • The second-story angel
  • Afraid of a gun
  • Tom, Dick, or Harry
  • One hour
  • Who killed Bob Teal?
  • A man called Spade
  • Too many have lived
  • They can only hang you once
  • A man named Thin
  • The first thin man.