'''''The Thin Man''''' is [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s story of a hard drinking former detective named Nick Charles who is pulled into the investigation of the murder of the secretary of a missing inventor. He and his wife are a charming but childless couple visiting [[Manhattan]] to avoid relatives in 1932. In a [[speakeasy]] on Christmas Eve, Nick is recognized by Dorothy Wynant.
story of a hard drinking former detective named Nick Charles who is pulled into the investigation of the murder of the secretary of a missing inventor. He and his wife are a charming but childless couple visiting [[Manhattan]] to avoid relatives in 1932. In a [[speakeasy]] on Christmas Eve, Nick is recognized by Dorothy Wynant.