The Return of the Thin Man

<p>The sometime Pinkerton Detective, the consumptive and the drunk, the pioneer of noir writing, the bleak defier of McCarthy, the jailbird, the writer, and the Hollywood icon. </p><p>Dashiell Hammett wrote only five books. This is the sixth. </p><p>Dashiell Hammet was the author of the world famous MALTESE FALCON which changed the face of crime writing forever. He died in 1961. </p>