Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72261-8

THE THIN MAN

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.

Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72263-2

WOMAN IN THE DARK

On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her. First published in installments in Liberty magazine and now rediscovered after many years, Woman in the Dark shows Dashiell Hammett at the peak of his narrative powers.

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The Big Knockover, 978-0-679-72259-5

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VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD

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First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition, August 1992

Copyright 1933, 1934 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Copyright renewed 1961, 1962 by Dashiell Hammett

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,

New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1934.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894–1961.

The thin man / Dashiell Hammett.

p.   cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-76750-9

I. Title.

PS3515.A4347T47   1989

813’.52–dcl9

91-50920

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