A value-priced collection containing two of Dashiell Hammetts most legendary hard-boiled detective novels. The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New Yorks coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nicks client. Nick cant resist, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder. In The Maltese Falcon, PI Sam Spade is a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partners killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird.

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