A review by bob_muller
Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett

5.0

It is tremendously fun to be a fan of an author like Dashiell Hammett and then discover a "new" collection of stories. Not that re-reading the Continental Op collection and the novels is boring, but a whole set of stories (Continental Op included, and Sam Spade) that one hasn't read? Nice. I think the editors have done a great job, and the biographical sketch told me a lot about Hammett that I didn't know. Highly recommended. Anyone out there doing the real, complete Dashiell Hammett collection? Please? Why should Twain get all the glory? Sam Spade would have had Huck Finn in jail faster than the squeeze of a trigger.