The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammetts The Thin Man is a genredefining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Exdetective 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 bulletriddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business. Trying to make sense of false leads, suspicious alibis and mistaken identities, Nick and Nora are thrown into a world of gangsters, hoodlums and speakeasies, where noone can be trusted. 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 harddrinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries. Dashiel Samuel Hammett (18941961) was born on a farm in southern Maryland, and grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen, and after various jobs became an operative for Pinkertons Detective Agency. The First World War intervened, and Hammett soon turned to writing, becoming, during the 1920s, the unquestioned master of detectivestory fiction in America. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous novels. If you enjoyed The Thin Man, you might...

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FC; Weight: 302 g; Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 16

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