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Amazon.com ReviewThe Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popularNick and Nora Charles, accompanied by their schnauzer, Asta, are lounging in their suite at the Normandie in New York City for the Christmas holiday, enjoying the prerogatives of wealth: meals delivered at any hour, theater openings, taxi rides at dawn, rubbing elbows with the gangster element in speakeasies. They should be annoyingly affected, but they charm. Mad about each other, sardonic, observant, kind to those in need, and cool in a fight, Nick and Nora are graceful together, and their home life provides a sanctuary from the rough world of gangsters, hoodlums, and police investigations into which Nick is immediately plunged.A lawyer-friend asks Nick to help find a killer and reintroduces him to the family of Richard Wynant, a more-than-eccentric inventor who disappeared from society 10 years before. His former wife, the lush and manipulative Mimi, has remarried a European fortune hunter who turns out to be a vindictive former associate of her first husband and is bent on the ruin of Wynant's family fortune. Wynant's children, Dorothy and Gilbert, seem to have inherited the

Who reads The Thin Man?

Author

Dashiell Hammett, 1894-1961

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Crime

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679722632

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children'S

Rating

3.97 / 5 (20,900 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14