THIN MAN, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

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’ Margaret Atwood ‘The
ace performer’ Raymond Chandler

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a
rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks
and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin
Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of
manners.

Dashiel Samuel Hammett was born in 1894 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. World War I intervened, and Hammett soon turned
to writing, and in the late 1920s became the unquestioned master of
detective-story fiction in America. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The
Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous
novels. He died in 1961.