Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THIN MAN-Dashiell Hammett- Knopf...
...Edgar Allan Poe. In Dashiell Hammett the U. S. has again a first-rate writer of crime stories, as indigenous to his country and his day as Bret Harte was to his. This week Hammett fans are racing each other to the bookstores to get his latest, The Thin...
...other Hammett stories, the characters in The Thin Man have lives of their own, are not the traditional puppets with which a tired school of reading and writing has been content. They give the impression of three-dimensional figures whose background takes in far more than the few pages of their story; they act and talk unbookishly, with the hard, queer inconsequence of real life...
...gunman breaks into his hotel room early one morning to crease him with a bullet. Then he gets grudgingly busy. Before Wynant is found, two more murders are uncovered. More conventional in plot than his earlier books and less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least a dozen murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them...
...years were fun," says he. "Then it got tedious. . . . The funniest case I ever worked on was the Arbuckle affair in San Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy...