{"product_id":"nightmare-town","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us \u003cb\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/b\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, \u003cb\u003eNightmare Town\u003c\/b\u003e is a treasury of tales from America's poet laureate of the dispossessed.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833719533773,"sku":"9780375701023","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_99772780-fbcd-4e85-bbda-4faeebf16734.jpg?v=1790894458","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/nightmare-town","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}