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|title=The Return of the Thin Man

|sort=Return of the Thin Man, The

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781908800206

|pages=240

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=November 2012

|summary=Hammett's initial offerings for After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man are claimed to be novellas, but they read more as screen plays. The author's wit and dialogue mastery shine through, but they wouldn't read that well other than in the precise context in which the editors set them. As a whole, it holds together well.

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I've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditions. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to the writer that Chandler called ''the ace performer'', the man ''who did over and over again what only the best writers ever do at all''.

If you want to see how well the genre is holding up in the 21st century , you could do worse than to check out [[Die A Little by Megan Abbott]]

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