# The Thin Man

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- Book: [The Thin Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett/the-thin-man) ([The Thin Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett/the-thin-man.md))
- Authors: [Dashiell Hammet](https://www.bookquiver.com/dashiell-hammett)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-252-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.' Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover and boss, has disappeared. Everyone is after him, but Nick is not convinced Wynant is the murderer - and when he finds a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns in his bedroom, it's only the beginning of his troubles.