Nightmare Town
by Hammett, Dashiell
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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Nightmare Town.
by Hammett, Dashiell. (Text) McCauley, Kirby & Greenberg, Martin H. and Gorman, Ed. (Eds. )
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New York: Dell, 1948. Softcover. Good. First Dell edition. Illustrated wrappers. Selected and edited by Ellery Queen. Good with heavy creasing, edgewear, and tears on the pages. "Izzard in the desert, where mysterious and violent events occur in "Nightmare Town" Item Price
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New York: Dell, 1948. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Selected and edited by Ellery Queen. Mass market paperback. Binding slightly cocked, creases and rubbing on wrappers with tiny stains on cover, very good. Includes: A Letter from Ellery Queen; "Nightmare Town"; "The Scorched Face"; "Albert Pastor at Home"; and "Corkscrew". Dell Mapback 379. Item Price
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Collects twenty stories originally published in Black Mask and other magazines. Introduction by William F. Nolan. Tiny spot to the bottom edge and to the verso of the Acknowledgments page. About fine in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.
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New York: Dell Publishing. Very Good-. 1950. Mass Market Paperback. Read, with creases at spine and light wear to cover. Previous bookstore ink price on title page. ; Collects four stories, "Nightmare Town," "The Scorched Face," "Albert Pastor at Home" and "Corkscrew." Cover art by Robert Stanley; (Dell "Mapback" #379) ; 190 pages . Item Price
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NIGHTMARE TOWN
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New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1948]. First edition. Text block age darkened, touch of edge rubbing, a nearly fine copy. (20885). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. A Mercury Book, No. 120. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories, "Nightmare Town," "The Scorched Face," "Albert Pastor at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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Nightmare Town (Dell "map back")
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New York: Dell, 1948. First edition thus. Softcover. Good. First papeback edition, a Dell "map back" in color illustrated softcovers and rear cover map of Izzard-in-the-Desert", scene of the mystery. Introduction to this edition by Ellery Queen. Good, crease to the fornt cover, ususal embrowing ot the pages and the upper tips of the first several pages clipped… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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Nightmare Town: Twenty long unavailable short stori
by Hammett, Dashiell
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Nightmare Town: Stories
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. F. 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (Stated) quarter bound in gray cloth & black boards. 8vo size, 396pp. Collection of 20 stories. . Item Price
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