Shadow of the Thin Man keeps the series going as strong as ever, even with a new team of writers and a completely original story, as there were no more Dashell Hammett stories left to adapt. W.S. Van Dyke still directed the film, now as a Major in the Marines/5(). Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last - and most successful - novel. Following the enormous success of The Thin Man movie in , Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas for the films that became After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man. Hammett brought back. · In the thirties, Hammett wrote story lines for two “Thin Man” sequels and several other films, moved back and forth between New York and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (where he preferred either Is Accessible For Free: False.
The Novels of Dashiell Hammett - [Contents: Red Harvest -- the Dain Curse -- the Maltese Falcon -- the Glass Key -- the Thin Man] Dashiell Hammett. Published by New York; Knopf January , Seller: Open Books West Loop, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. Contact seller Seller Rating: Used - Hardcover. Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man is a small but dense piece of detective fiction which follows a former detective, Nick Charles (short for the Greek Charalambides). Charles claims to be. Description: New York: The McCall Company / Redbook, First appearance in print of Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man," preceding the book published by Alfred A. Knopf in January Basis for the classic mystery film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
First appearance in print of Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man," preceding the book published by Alfred A. Knopf in January Basis for the classic mystery film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. About Very Good in pictorial wrappers, with moderate soil. Read more. The Thin Man is a (sort of, but not really very) noir mystery novel by one of the greats of noir crime history, Dashiell Hammett, who is best known for creating Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. But The Thin Man was also a well known and much read series, and maybe still is. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett () Dashiell Hammett’s final novel, The Thin Man, features the beloved detective Nick Charles. Tough and self-possessed, Nick has retired from his days working for the Trans-American Detective Agency and has since married a socialite and moved to California. When our protagonist and his wife Nora go to vacation in New York City for the holidays, they find out about the disappearance of one of Nick’s former clients, the eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant.
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