26 of Our Favorite Thriller Books That Were Turned Into Movies

All of Dashiell Hammett's detective novels are great thrillers, but The Thin Man is special because it's so different from the madcap noir film that it inspired. The book's married crime-solving duo of Nick and Nora Charles are witty on screen and off, but the novel doesn't shy away from the darkness of the mystery they find themselves embroiled in.