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The Thin Man

THE NOVEL | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES

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First 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 and passages

First line

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.

Passages

"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."

Last lines

"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.".

 

THE NOVEL | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES

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Author
Raymond Chandler

Novel
The Big Sleep

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