The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett's classic, "The Thin Man," is our book this week on our "Classic Mysteries" podcast. I suspect I'm not alone in remembering those great "Thin Man" movies of the 1930s and 1940s, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. (All right, all right, I'm not that old either, but they were certainly featured on late-night TV while I was growing up.) While there were several movies, Hammett really only wrote one mystery featuring Nick and Nora - and, in fact, it was the last mystery novel he wrote. There are murders, an elusive suspect disappears, enormous quantities of prohibition booze are consumed, and the dialogue is as witty as we all remember it. A full review, as always, may be found on the podcast, linked from the list on your right.