The Thin Man -Penguin Books 1952- (Dashiell Hammett)

Vintage detective noir novel from Dashiell Hammett (author of The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest etc). This was Hammett’s last novel.

Some age related wear to cover

The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel. Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business.

Dashiell Hammett was credited with inventing the hardboiled crime novel, and this story of murder and mayhem in Manhattan, with its breakneck plot, snappy dialogue - and the hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries.

For fans of detective noir and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane and Ross MacDonald. A film was made of the novel and has been voted among the greatest films ever made.

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