A review by librariabillie
Return of the Thin Man by Richard Layman, Dashiell Hammett

2.0

I'm disappointed. The history behind the writing of the stories and scripts, including Hammett's drinking and sicknesses from that drinking, was very interesting, and I'd give that part 5/5. However, the stories themselves are told in the present tense (ugh), and are only a description of what you would see on the screen, not the in-depth character development of The Thin Man novel. To be fair, the studio didn't want character development but the monetary success of the first movie, which they felt had already done all the character development necessary. Hammett just wanted the money.