I love this, but I doubt that I really need two copies.

from amazon.com:

Amazon.com
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popular movie series with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and both the movies and the novel continue to captivate new generations of fans.
Nick and Nora Charles, accompanied by their schnauzer, Asta, are lounging in their suite at the Normandie in New York City for the Christmas holiday, enjoying the prerogatives of wealth: meals delivered at any hour, theater openings, taxi rides at dawn, rubbing elbows with the gangster element in speakeasies. They should be annoyingly affected, but they charm. Mad about each other, sardonic, observant, kind to those in need, and cool in a fight, Nick and Nora are graceful together, and their home life provides a sanctuary from the rough world of gangsters, hoodlums, and police investigations into which Nick is immediately plunged.

A lawyer-friend asks Nick to help find a killer and reintroduces him to the family of Richard Wynant, a more-than-eccentric inventor who disappeared from society 10 years before. His former wife, the lush and manipulative Mimi, has remarried a European fortune hunter who turns out to be a vindictive former associate of her first husband and is bent on the ruin of Wynant's family fortune. Wynant's children, Dorothy and Gilbert, seem to have inherited the family aversion to straight talk. Dorothy, who has matured into a beautiful young woman, has a crush on Nick, and so, in a hero-worshipping way, does mama's boy Gilbert. Nick and Nora respond kindly to their neediness as Nick tries to make sense of misinformation, false identities, far-fetched alibis, and, at the center of the confusion, the mystery of The Thin Man, Richard Wynant. Is he mad? Is he a killer? Or is he really an eccentric inventor protecting his discovery from intellectual theft?

The dialogue is spare, the locales lively, and Nick, the narrator, shows us the players as they are, while giving away little of his own thoughts. No one is telling the whole truth, but Nick remains mostly patient as he doggedly tries to backtrack the lies. Hammett's New York is a cross between Damon Runyon and Scott Fitzgerald--more glamorous than real, but compelling when visited in the company of these two charmers. The lives of the rich and famous don't get any better than this! --Barbara Schlieper

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This book was sent to ChiBoiler at the request of DoveiLibri

Thank you for this book off of my wishlist. I appreciate it and can't wait to read it.

I received two copies of this book when I won the April/May Happy Day RABCK contest, so I am going to start this copy on a journey.

How the bookray works (I've borrowed the rules from others):

- The person before you will PM you for your address, please PM them back with your address
- Please make a journal entry once you've received the book
- Please put the book at the top of your TBR pile but under other rings/rays that arrived first
- Read the book (take your time and enjoy the book, try to finish it within one month
- When you are close to the end, refer to the journal and PM the next person to get their address
- Once you finish the book, make another journal entry and let us know what you thought
- Please send the book to the next person on the list using surface mail, make release notes to help track
- If you are the last person please do whatever you would like with the book!!!... Happy Reading!!

Here is the list: (order subject to change)

1. JennyC1230 (US, prefers US, but will ship int'l)
2. mrsboknows (US, prefers US, but will ship int'l)
3. tamichan (Japan, int'l)
4. cat207 (Aus, prefers AUS, but will ship int'l)
5. EmgeeNL (Netherlands, EU ship)
6. ThursdayN (Sweden, EU, but open to int'l)
7. Danielle23 (UK, prefers UK or EU)
8. Fluffy-Owl (UK, EU only)
9. Jozebedee (UK, EU only)

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Releasing to JennyC to start off this bookray. Happy travels, little book!

This book arrived today! Thank you! I will read it next and get it moving soon. :-)

I really enjoyed this book! I have seen the movie based on the book several times, so the storyline and the Nick and Nora Charles characters was very familiar! Thanks for sharing!

I have the address for Mrsboknows and I will mail this soon!

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Sending to Mrsboknows today via US Mail - DC #03080730000097437805

Enjoy the book!

Arrived today and is 2nd in line TBR. :)

I loved it! Loved how Nick keeps his thoughts mostly to himself, love the relationship between Nick and Nora. Can't wait to see the movie and read more by this author. Thanks for sharing!

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Off to tamichan in Japan! Enjoy.

Hi! I received this book about a week ago! Thanks!
I will start reading it later this week!