Nightmare TownBy: Dashiell Hammett Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of Englands greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town end ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story Ruffians