“Tall-over six feet-and one of the thinnest men I’ve ever seen. He must be about fifty now and his hair was almost white when I knew him. Usually needs a haircut, ragged brindle mustache, bites his fingernails.”
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Dashiell Hammett
,
book
The Thin Man
I pushed the dog away to reach for my drink.
Nick Charles
The Thin Man (1929)
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