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The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. Originally published in the December, 1933 issue of Redbook, it appeared in book form the following month. Although Hammett never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a Read More..

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Description	The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. Originally published in the December, 1933 issue of Redbook, it appeared in book form the following month. Although Hammett never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a successful six-part film series, which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. A Thin Man television series followed in the 1950s.An early draft of the story, written several years before the published version and now in print in several collections of Hammett's work, does not mention the main characters of the novel, Nick and Nora Charles and ends after ten chapters. It is about a quarter of the length of the finished book.Although Hammett lived until 1961, The Thin Man was his last published novel. Lillian Hellman, in an introduction to a compilation of Hammett's five novels, contemplated several explanations for Hammett's retirement as a novelist:I have been asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after The Thin Man. I do not know. I think, but I only think, I know a few of the reasons: he wanted to do a new kind of work; he was sick for many of those years and getting sicker. But he kept his work, and his plans for work, in angry privacy and even I would not have been answered if I had ever asked, and maybe because I never asked is why I was with him until the last day of his life.Following the success of the movie version of The Thin Man in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to work on screenplays for sequels. During the course of this work, he wrote After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man, which, discovered amongst Hammett's papers in 2011, together with instructions by Hammett for incorporation of additional elements written by screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, were edited by Hammett biographer Richard Layman in collaboration with Hammett's granddaughter Julie M. Rivett and published as novellas in the book Return of The Thin Man in 2012.
Description	The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. Originally published in the December, 1933 issue of Redbook, it appeared in book form the following month. Although Hammett never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a successful six-part film series, which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. A Thin Man television series followed in the 1950s.An early draft of the story, written several years before the published version and now in print in several collections of Hammett's work, does not mention the main characters of the novel, Nick and Nora Charles and ends after ten chapters. It is about a quarter of the length of the finished book.Although Hammett lived until 1961, The Thin Man was his last published novel. Lillian Hellman, in an introduction to a compilation of Hammett's five novels, contemplated several explanations for Hammett's retirement as a novelist:I have been asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after The Thin Man. I do not know. I think, but I only think, I know a few of the reasons: he wanted to do a new kind of work; he was sick for many of those years and getting sicker. But he kept his work, and his plans for work, in angry privacy and even I would not have been answered if I had ever asked, and maybe because I never asked is why I was with him until the last day of his life.Following the success of the movie version of The Thin Man in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to work on screenplays for sequels. During the course of this work, he wrote After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man, which, discovered amongst Hammett's papers in 2011, together with instructions by Hammett for incorporation of additional elements written by screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, were edited by Hammett biographer Richard Layman in collaboration with Hammett's granddaughter Julie M. Rivett and published as novellas in the book Return of The Thin Man in 2012.

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