![]() ![]() He describes one dwelling, and it's a fighting couple’s messy apartment. But Hammett didn't give me even a cursory glance at a room. I'll confess I can deal with a level of description most of my friends call excessive. But the settings are left to the imagination. People get a basic size, shape and, perhaps, coloring. ![]() So why wasn’t I as enamored with this version? The twists and turns are almost the same as the movie. ![]() Pretty, rich wife of said detective eggs him on while cracking wise herself. Wise-cracking former private detective is reluctantly drawn into a murder investigation by the daughter of the missing main suspect. Besides, books are always better than the movie version, right? I knew I was in for a treat. I wouldn’t be able to hold my head up around my mystery writer friends until I did. How could I call myself a mystery lover with this gaping hole in my reading history? Never read anything by Dashiell Hammett come to think of it. ![]() When I watched it again recently, maybe for the thirtieth time, I realized I had never read the book. It is one of the early influences on my love of all things mystery. There’s wise-cracking dialogue, great clothes and a twisty murder-mystery to solve. What’s not to love? William Powell and Myrna Loy are at their best. Van Dyke, is one of my all-time favorite movies. The movie version of The Thin Man (1934), written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich and directed by W.S. ![]()
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