Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper chose Dashiell Hammett's classic detective novel The Thin Man for this year's One Book, One Denver community reading program. Hammett, now deceased, wrote five novels in his career as a writer, including The Maltese Falcon which became a movie staring Humphrey Bogart.
The Thin Man was written in 1934 and follows the private detective "Nick Charles" on a missing person case that is discovered to be a case of murder. Mayor Hickenlooper has responded to criticism over the main character's excessive drinking, as the One Book, One Denver book choice is intended to be appropriate for high school students. The mayor claims that it was not chosen to show the detective as any kind of model.
Source: Rocky Mountain News
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