Thin Man Novellas

Our 2011-12 Campus Read selection was The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.  If you liked that book and that genre, you may want to read two never-before-published Thin Man novellas by the "legendary master of hard-boiled fiction."

Check out Return of the Thin Man: the Original Screen Stories by Dashiell Hammett and edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett.  It is currently on the New Book display shelves at the BSC Library.  Editors Layman and Rivett visited our campus in November 2011 as part of our Campus Read activities. Layman is a Hammett scholar and Rivett is Hammett's granddaughter.

The Return of the Thin Man includes two novellas that Hammett wrote as screen stories for the celebrated films, After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man, which were sequels to the adaptation of his 1934 novel, The Thin Man. All told, there were six movies in the Thin Man series starring William Powell as Nick and Myrna Loy as Nora and Skippy as their beloved wire terrier, Asta.