Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72264-9
NIGHTMARE TOWN
Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double-and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled descriptions to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, whip-smart, impassioned, Nightmare Town is a treasury of tales from America’s poet laureate of the dispossessed.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-375-70102-3
RED HARVEST
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72261-8
THE THIN MAN
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72263-2
WOMAN IN THE DARK
On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her. First published in installments in Liberty magazine and now rediscovered after many years, Woman in the Dark shows Dashiell Hammett at the peak of his narrative powers.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72265-6
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The Big Knockover, 978-0-679-72259-5
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Copyright 1929 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Copyright renewed 1956 by Dashiell Hammett
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1929.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
Red harvest.
I. Title.
PZ3.H1884Re7 [PS3515.A4347] 813′.5′2 91-50921
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