The Reading Lounge: Book Club for Friends

Friends Event

Enjoy a relaxed afternoon talking about books with guest speaker and group discussion. This month’s book is, The Thin Man (1934) by Dashiell Hammett. The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel. Dashiell Hammett was credited with inventing the hardboiled crime novel, and this story of murder and mayhem in Manhattan, with its breakneck plot, snappy dialogue - and the hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries.

Join the conversation with special guest and crime fiction authority, Dr Rachel Franks. Includes refreshments and reading notes. Bookings Essential (limited places available).