“The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett

The story starts when Dorothy Wynant, a pretty girl of twenty, asks Nick Charles, a retired private detective, to help her find her father and arrange a meeting with him. She hadn’t seen her father since her parents’ divorce and misses him, but knows her mother would strongly disapprove of the meeting. Still, the beginning seems innocent enough until the personal secretary of Dorothy’s father is found dead in her own apartment with four bullets in her body.
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