Murder mystery
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The Thin Man: Cinema’s Original Screwball Mystery

At first glance, The Thin Man looks like another murder mystery. A missing inventor, a body, a long list of suspects, and a retired detective reluctantly pulled back into one final case. But that’s not really why the film has endured. Its greatest mystery isn’t who committed the murder—it’s how a film about murder became… Continue reading
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