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and spent most of his life in the French capital

almost laconic style

Daniel's old self resurfaces

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children and adults including the astonishing Dead or Alive

The Thin Man Double Sided and spent most of hisThe last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Ex detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman)