The Thin Man (Penguin Essentials) -

Dashiell Hammett

Penguin

2012

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780241962527

Set among the speakeasies of early 1930s Manhattan, The Thin Man is hardboiled crime at its wisecracking best.

'So far I had known just where I stood on the Wolf-Wynant-Jorgensen troubles and what I was doing - the answers were, respectively, nowhere and nothing... when I opened my eyes and sat up in bed some six hours later 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.