{"product_id":"9781600969713","title":"Nightmare Town","description":" \"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original—packs a wallop.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eNightmare Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasury of tales from America's poet laureate of the dispossessed.  ","brand":"Boomer Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041418952944,"sku":"9781600969713","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781600969713_p0.jpg?v=1763815305","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781600969713","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}