The movie was also very good you will not be disappointed in it.

Dashiell Hammett knew how to throw some comedy in with a mystery. 'The Thin Man' was a very good book, and is perfect for anyone who loves a good mystery. Despite this, MGM proceeded to make five more 'thin man' movies ('After the Thin Man,' 'Another Thin Man,' 'Shadow of the Thin Man,' 'The Thin Man Goes Home,' and 'Song of the Thin Man'). However, in reality, 'the thin man' is actually Clyde Wynant, who was murdered in the novel. I just finished a volume entitled Return of the Thin Man. Because of the six films about 'the thin man,' many people believe that it is Nick Charles. The movies are based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Thin Man written in 1934. Something that many people misinterpret is who 'the thin man' actually is. I also noticed that many lines were taken right from the novel. Now, this has no effect on the story at all, but it was just something interesting that I noticed. They changed it in the movie so that Asta was a fox terrier. In the novel Asta is a schnauzer and Nick Charles specifically tells someone that he is not a fox terrier. For instance, one things that was changed, but does not change the storyline, is the Charles' dog, Asta's, breed. The novel and the motion picture are very similar, yet very different. he is sucked into the mystery, and after a lot of work, he finally cracks it open.

His wife, Nora, does nothing to follow his wishes in fact, she wants him to go back into detective work so she can help him. The main character, Nick Charles, is a retired private eye trying to look for some peace. Dashiell Hammett was a great mystery writer, who wrote books that have become classic novels and movies, such as 'The Maltese Falcon,' and 'The Dain Curse.' A few months after 'The Thin Man' was published in 1934, it became a motion picture starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. This book has become a classic for mystery fans everywhere. Provenance: Eric and Gerty (presentation signature) – Roger Rechler (his sale, Christie's New York, 11 October 2002, lot 136, $17,925).'The Thin Man' is a murder-mystery that takes place in 1930's New York City. Original green cloth (spine slightly frayed) dust jacket (rubbed with a few creases, closed tears, and tape repairs) in slipcase. The book was banned in Boston and bowdlerized in Britain over the use of the word “erection.” While the word was excised from the London edition (“erections did not, at that time, exist in the English novel” according to Julian Symons), the American publisher put an ad in The New York Times fanning the flames of the scandal. Knopf, 1934.Ī presentation copy of the first American edition of Hammett’s controversial hardboiled classic, in jacket, inscribed: “For Eric and Gerty with my best, if illiterate regards and things.” Sinclair Lewis described Hammett as 'undoubtedly the best of American detective story writers, and The Thin Man is certainly the most breathless of his stories' (Nolan).

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