The Thin Man
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett
'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway'. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover and boss, has disappeared. Everyone is after him, but Nick is not convinced Wynant is the murderer - and when he finds a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns in his bedroom, it's only the beginning of his troubles.
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General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 0.133
- : 01 June 2012
- : 01 July 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dashiell Hammett
- : Dashiell Hammett
- : Paperback
- : 1207
- : 1207
- : English
- : 813.52
- : 240
- : FF