{"product_id":"thin-man","title":"Thin Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett''s \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEx-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDashiel Samuel Hammett (1894-1961) was born on a farm in southern Maryland, and grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen, and after various jobs became an operative for Pinkerton''s Detective Agency. The First World War intervened, and Hammett soon turned to writing, becoming, during the 1920s, the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Key\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) are among his most famous novels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Raymond Chandler''s \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep and Other Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The ace performer''\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Chandler, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The exuberance of language, the relish with which seediness is described ... it''s a pleasure to imagine Hammett cutting loose with whatever rascally high jinks he could cook up'' \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Atwood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319972667774,"sku":"NW9780141194608","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141194608.jpg?v=1778243374","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/thin-man","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}