The Thin Man

Resumen del libro

Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business. Trying to make sense of false leads, suspicious alibis and mistaken identities, Nick and Nora are thrown into a world of gangsters, hoodlums and speakeasies, where no-one can be trusted.


Dashiell Hammett was credited with inventing the hardboiled crime novel, and this story of murder and mayhem in Manhattan, with its breakneck plot, snappy dialogue - and the hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries

Biografía del autor

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) está considerado el creador de la novela negra en su vertiente más emblemática. Construyó un universo de ficción autónomo pero profundamente conectado con la realidad de su tiempo. El transcurso del tiempo no ha hecho sino confirmar la opinión de que su obra, a la vez que cumple los requisitos de eficacia y diversión para llegar al gran público, pertenece por derecho propio a la mejor literatura del siglo XX.