![]() ![]() There is some suggestion that Nick, as a retired detective constantly drawn back into the action, once mixed with far seedier company, but these days he’s more at home with a Manhattan than a slug of Kentucky Bourbon in a dirty glass. ![]() The lead characters Nick and Nora Charles are smart, quick and urbane, and they move in brighter circles than the Sam Spades of this world. His novels The Maltese Falcon and its sequels featuring Sam Spade are seminal in their field but The Thin Man, also considered one of his major works, is completely different. That’s what you get for making assumptions.ĭashiell Hammet is considered one of the godfathers of the ‘hard-boiled’ detective genre, pre-dating the genre’s other big name, Raymond Chandler, by a good decade. Before I started reading the book from which it was adapted, written a mere 5 years previously, I’d always assumed that the famous badinage between husband and wife team Nick and Nora Charles in the movie was a product of its frequently-paired stars Powell and Loy, but it turns out I was wrong. It’s hard to think of The Thin Man without picturing William Powell and Myrna Loy in the famous 1934 movie version that spun off into numerous sequels, batting weaponised one-liners back and forth like a game of atomic ping-pong. ![]()
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