Nightmare alley /
Gresham, William Lindsay
Nightmare alley / by William Lindsay Gresham. - New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. - 275 p. ; : ill. ; 21 cm.
With hardcover
Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham's first and best-known work. The novel, most admired by noir fiction fans, features characters ranging from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business. Stan Carlisle is an ambitious 'carny' who eventually becomes a spiritualist for the rich and gullible. It appears that the world is at his feet, but not everything is as it seems.
Circus performers--Fiction
Mediums--Fiction
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction
Nightmare alley / by William Lindsay Gresham. - New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. - 275 p. ; : ill. ; 21 cm.
With hardcover
Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham's first and best-known work. The novel, most admired by noir fiction fans, features characters ranging from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business. Stan Carlisle is an ambitious 'carny' who eventually becomes a spiritualist for the rich and gullible. It appears that the world is at his feet, but not everything is as it seems.
Circus performers--Fiction
Mediums--Fiction
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction