Nightmare Town: Stories
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ISBN: 0375401113 / Publisher: Knopf, August 1999
The inimitable Sam Spade and the Continental Op take on new cases in a collection of long-unavailable short stories by the author of The Maltese Falcon, in an anthology of mysteries that also includes Hammett's first study for The Thin Man. 25,000 first printing.
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Presents 20 short stories and novellas by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), author of /The Maltese Falcon and an array of well-crafted detective fiction that is commonly credited with having invented the "hard-boiled" school of literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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