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The Thin Man
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- William Dufris
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 November 2008
- Run Time
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple.
Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later, a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick’s client.
Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder.
Critics Review
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“The most breathless of Hammett’s stories.”
Sinclair Lewis, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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“None of [Hammett’s] creations proved as endearing as Nick and Nora Charles, the wisecracking crime fighters of The Thin Man, his final novel.”
Washington Post
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“All the wit of Nick and Nora is there, and the plot from the book needed no change to make the film one of the greatest American mystery comedies ever…Try it for a great sense of the good life in the New York of the 1930s.”
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Details
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- William Dufris
- Duration
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 November 2008
- ISBN
- 9781602835030
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple.Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later, a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick’s client.Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder.
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