Gresham, William Lindsay <br/><br/>
Nightmare alley / 
by William Lindsay Gresham. 
 - New York :  Rinehart & Company, Inc.,  1946. 
 - 275 p. ; :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> With hardcover 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Circus performers--Fiction<br/>Mediums--Fiction<br/>Swindlers and swindling--Fiction