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About Dashiell Hammett

The Thin Man

» Dashiell Hammett

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 24 Feb 2011

£9.99

Synopsis

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. 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 no-one 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 hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries.

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141194608
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 240
Published : 24 Feb 2011
Publisher : Penguin Classics

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The Thin Man

» Dashiell Hammett

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