The Thin Man
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First editionFirst publication
1933 in Redbook magazine
First publication in book form
1934
Literature form
Novel
Genres
Crime, mystery
Writing language
English
Author's country
United States
Length
Approx. 62,500 words
Notable lines
I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over to me.
— First line
"Let's stick around awhile. This excitement has put us behind in our drinking."
"You got types?"
"Only you, darling—lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."
"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."
She stared at him dully and said: "I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you."
"Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's.'
"That may be," Nora said, "but it's all pretty unsatisfactory.".
— Last lines
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