I have to confess that I was a little disappointed in The Thin Man. I have read two other books by Hammett and seen the movie of The Thin Man, but I was a little disappointed in that the book fell short. The first quarter of the book is very good, but after that we lose Nora from the story and as ...
An inventor goes missing and his mistress winds up dead. Former detective Nick Charles wants nothing to do with the case but keeps getting drawn in. With his plucky wife Nora, can Nick get things sorted out so he can get back to his drinking?The Thin Man was not at all like I expected. After reading...
At the end of december Unshelved's Book Club reviewed this book (http://www.unshelved.com/bookclub/2011-12-30#ThinMan) and the review intrigued me so I decided to read it. By today's standards this is a novella at 190 pages, but there's a fair bit packed into those 190 pages, along with an awful lo...
Despite the good press from authors I like (Donald Westlake said, "It was a sad, lonely, lost book, that pretended to be cheerful and aware and full of good fellowship, and I hadn't known you could do that: seem to be telling this, but really telling that; three-dimensional writing, like three-dimen...
Probably my favourite Hammett, as strange and dark as he others (the detective spends the whole book trying not to detect), but leavened by a brittle, peculiar humour. I re-read this pretty regularly and once I tried to do a drink-along (whatever Nick drinks, drinks too) and I was hammered within 1...
I have a vague recollection of having seen a Thin Man movie back when I was a kid. So I wanted to read the original. It is pretty good. Basically it seems that the author meticulously copied his style from the character, Guy Noir, from Garrison Keillor (obviously the other way 'round). What I learne...
The Thin Man is solid noir fiction, and I quite enjoyed it, although the women are mostly burbling, sometimes hysterical liars (Nora Charles is a welcome exception.) On the other hand, Dashiell Hammett doesn't seem to quite have the same turn of phrase as Raymond Chandler, so I think The Thin Man wi...
Classic gum shoe 'whodunit' murder mystery. I definitely didn't guess this one, so the plot was fine. But, both the good guys and the bad guys in this book are pretty seedy who gamble, go to bars and drink all day. I don't mind a mystery with dark flawed characters, but there is very little backg...
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