L'ultimo romanzo dell'insuperabile maestro della narrativa poliziesca americana, The Thin Man di Dashiell Hammett, è un romanzo giallo che definisce il genere, pubblicato in Penguin Modern Classics. L'ex detective Nick Charles progetta di trascorrere un tranquillo Natale rintanato in una suite d'albergo con la sua affascinante moglie Nora, il loro Schnauzer domestico e una cassa di buon Scotch. Ma poi un cadavere crivellato di proiettili e un inventore scomparso (per non parlare delle attenzioni di una bella ragazza) lo costringono a uscire dalla pensione e a tornare in affari. Cercando di dare un senso a false piste, alibi sospetti e identità sbagliate, Nick e Nora vengono gettati in un mondo di gangster, teppisti e bar clandestini, dove non ci si può fidare di nessuno. A Dashiell Hammett è stato attribuito il merito di aver inventato il romanzo poliziesco hardboiled, e questa storia di omicidi e caos a Manhattan, con la sua trama spericolata, i dialoghi vivaci e la coppia Nick e Nora, che beve molto e fa battute, è uno dei suoi gialli più emozionanti e divertenti. Dashiel Samuel Hammett (1894-1961) nacque in una fattoria nel Maryland meridionale e crebbe a Philadelphia e Baltimora. Lasciò la scuola all'età di quattordici anni e, dopo vari lavori, divenne un agente della Pinkerton's Detective Agency. Scoppiò la prima guerra mondiale e Hammett si dedicò presto alla scrittura, diventando, durante gli anni '20, il maestro indiscusso della narrativa poliziesca in America. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) e The Glass Key (1931) sono tra i suoi romanzi più famosi. Se ti è piaciuto The Thin Man, potresti apprezzare anche The Big Sleep and Other Novels di Raymond Chandler, anch'esso disponibile su Penguin Modern Classics. 'L'artista provetto' Raymond Chandler, autore di The Big Sleep 'L'esuberanza del linguaggio, il gusto con cui viene descritta la squallidezza. è un piacere immaginare Hammett scatenarsi con qualsiasi mascalzone riesca a escogitare' Margaret Atwood, autrice di The Blind Assassin.
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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.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Ex-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. Dashiel 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. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous novels. If you enjoyed The Thin Man, you might like Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Other Novels, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The ace performer'Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep'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, author of The Blind Assassin. Codice articolo LU-9780141194608
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Paperback. Condizione: New. The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Ex-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. Dashiel 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. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous novels. If you enjoyed The Thin Man, you might like Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Other Novels, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The ace performer'Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep'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, author of The Blind Assassin. Codice articolo LU-9780141194608
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