{"product_id":"9780141194608-retail-the-thin-man","title":"The Thin Man","description":"The most famous of all of Hammett's tough, hard-bitten novels, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time\n\nEx-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. \n\nDashiell 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49001243148507,"sku":"9780141194608-RETAIL","price":28.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5e00989d-9f79-4756-82db-9bb35bc3aa3b.jpg?v=1784744863","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141194608-retail-the-thin-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}