The Thin Man (Green Penguin Book Club 3)

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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CriminOlly joins Caroline to read this classic of American hardboiled crime fiction. No major plot spoilers until you hear Caroline say we are "entering the spoiler zone", at 26:30. After that, expect full spoilers. A full list of titles in the Penguin series can be found at penguinfirsteditions.com. Olly's YouTube channel can be found at youtube.com/@CriminOllyBlog. Tickets for Backlisted: Live on 17th July, at which Caroline will be talking about Agatha Christie's Endless Night, are available here. Caroline's new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is out now. To find out more and get your copy, visit her website carolinecrampton.com/abodymadeofglass. Join the Shedunnit Book Club for two extra Shedunnit episodes a month plus access to the monthly reading discussions and community: shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Mentioned in this episode: — The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett — Endless Night by Agatha Christie — Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett — The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett — The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie — Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie — Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey — A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thethinmantranscript Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.
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0:22.3	at a major supermarket today.
0:24.4	For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. Welcome to She Dunit. I'm Caroline Crampton. And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club. A series within She Dunnet that documents my journey of reading
0:45.9	and discussing every crime title from the main Penguin series in order.
0:49.9	Our book today is The Thin Man by Dashil Hammett, which was first published in
0:58.1	1934 and then republished in October 1935 as part of the Penguin series. It is officially Penguin Number
1:07.1	14 and the first Penguin crime title not by a British author to join the imprint.
1:13.0	For those who are new to these podcasts,
1:15.0	it's worth knowing that the famous Penguin series with its iconic Tri-Band design
1:20.0	included lots of different genres of books,
1:22.0	of which crime fiction was just one,
1:24.4	all given a number and arranged in sequence. Each genre had a colour, crime being green, of course,
1:30.8	and I'm just reading the green penguins. That's why the numbers aren't sequential.
1:35.9	In between our book last time, number 6A and number 14 today were seven other titles that weren't
1:41.9	crime fiction. If you'd like to check what
1:44.6	those books were and see what the next crime titles coming up are, you'll find a
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