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Title: Hammett's Lukewarm send-off
Review: It always saddens me to think that Hammett, who created hard-boiled literature with THE MALETESE FALCON and RED HARVEST, should close out his writing career with this polite fluff about a married couple solving a socialite murder. Chandler would years later praise Hammett as the man "who gave murder back to people who had reason to committ it", but THIN MAN shows an unfortunate regression back to the old school that Hammett helped to eclipse. This is lightware fare, and nothing else.
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