The Thin Man
$27.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2011
Summary
The most famous of all of Hammett’s tough, hard-bitten novels, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
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 al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141194608 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014119460X |
| Author: | Dashiell Hammett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘The exuberance of language, the relish with which seediness is described .. it’s a pleasure to imagine Hammett cutting loose with whatever rascally high jinks he could cook up’
‘The exuberance of language, the relish with which seediness is described .. it’s a pleasure to imagine Hammett cutting loose with whatever rascally high jinks he could cook up’ * Margaret Atwood *
‘The ace performer’ * Raymond Chandler *
About The Author
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiel Samuel Hammett was born in 1894 and grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen, and after various jobs became an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. World War I intervened, and Hammett soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous novels. He died in 1961.
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