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product_id: 8814238
title: "Nightmare Town: Stories"
brand: "dashiell hammett"
price: "15496 Ft"
currency: HUF
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reviews_count: 13
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# Nightmare Town: Stories

**Brand:** dashiell hammett
**Price:** 15496 Ft
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Nightmare Town: Stories by dashiell hammett
- **How much does it cost?** 15496 Ft with free shipping
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Nightmare Town: Stories

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good Hammett, Not Great Hammett
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2011*

For those looking for more Dashiell Hammett short stories, Nightmare Town Stories is the best resource after you have read The Continental Op and The Big Knockover.  Those two collections, baring "Tulip" and "Corkscrew" contain the best of Hammett's many short stories.The stories assembled for Nightmare Town Stories are not up to Hammett's best, but they do offer - more Hammett.  Of principle interest is "Who Killed Bob Teal", first copyrighted in 1924, it appeared in "True Detective Stories" and after much dressing up, it was later to become the outline for The Maltese Falcon.  Compared to it's final fully developed form "Bob Teal's" sparse fifteen pages offer a glimpse into the Maltese Falcon's conception.  This story utilizes Hammett's oft repeated concept that what happened (the mystery) could only have been - what could have happened.Also of interest are three Sam Spade short storys and the first draft of the Thin Man, plus fifteen additional short stories. Although the stories of Nightmare Town are not up to Hammett's best they are still Hammett and as such offer his style and are thus often more rewarding than anything else available.bearclawthedonut

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    I always give Dashiell Hammett 5 out of 5 stars. Great writing great imagination
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2021*

and great writer of who done it's. Every work of his is a master piece.Every story takes me back to the 20s and 30s. Not to be over lookedby new readers of mysteries.

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    Dashiell Hammett Reader!
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2011*

This book contains stories written during different phases of Hammett's literary career. They mostly belong to the hardboiled genre, but their distict styles make it the most 'representative' book by Hammett. You will find Continetal Op stories here, as well as those involving amateurs. You will find grim action-packed stories, ands there are a few poignant few. There is an extremely intriguing draft of "The Thin Man", which, I am sure, has been tempting numerous mystery writers to take up for 'completion' keeping Hammett's style intact. Most of the stories are terrific, and even the weaker ones are readable (an astounding feat for someone who kept writing only for commercial reasons!). Hence, recommended.

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