The The Thin Man was arguably Daschle Hammett's most personal work.

It was his final novel, and Hammett wrote it when he was living with Lillian Helman.

He used himself and Helmin as the model for the novel's heroes.

Nick Charles, a retired detective coaxed back into one last case, and his wife Nora Nora encouraging her husband to get back in the crime

solving game and tagging along as his erstwhile assistant.

Nora prodded her husband to take on a final case,

Justice Helman encouraged Hammett to complete the book.

The novel was a hit when it was published,

and the film rights were quickly purchased by MGM.

William Powell and Myrna Loy, one of the big screen's most popular duos,

starred as Nick and Nora in the with screen treatments penned by Hamid himself.

Powell and Loy recreated their roles in radio versions of the Thin Man and its first sequel

on the Lux Radio Theater.

At the height of the popularity of the films,

Nick and Nora came to radio in their own weekly series

titled The Adventures of the Thin Man.

Now, fans of the original novel in the film will know that the

titular thin man was not Nick Charles. He was actually the missing inventor

Nick was hired to find in the story. However, the title had become so

identified with the characters that it was used in every title of the film series

as well as the radio program. The fourth film in the Powell Loy series Shadow of the Thin Man

was released in theaters a few months after the premiere of the radio series in

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