The Thin Man
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Trouble has a way of finding Nick Charles—even when he's retired from the sleuthing game. When Julia Wolf, an old acquaintance, turns up dead, Nick’s peaceful life of cocktails and clever banter with his dazzling wife, Nora, is promptly disrupted. At Nora’s playful insistence, Nick starts asking questions—and soon finds himself knee-deep in a mystery involving a missing inventor, a string of suspects, and a pistol-waving visitor who crashes their bedroom.
But Nick suspects there’s more to this case than a jealous lover or a vanished boss. As bodies pile up and secrets unravel, the Charleses dive headfirst into a world of deception, danger, and martinis.
With razor-sharp wit and glamorous grit, The Thin Man is part murder mystery, part high-society comedy, and all classic noir. Nick and Nora Charles remain one of crime fiction’s most iconic couples—elegant, intoxicated, and entirely irresistible.