The most interesting things about The Thin Man are:

1) The movie and series title do not refer to the lead character, but someone who appears only in the first movie. Sort of like The Pink Panther.

2) Dashiell Hammett absolutely hated the movies and wished he had never written the book the first one came from. He wanted to write hardboiled, real detective fiction and he hated the idle rich, except when he had money, of course.

3) Myrna Loy was gorgeous.