Der dünne Mann

Ex-detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora, whose fortune Charles manages, want to spend Christmas in New York with their schnauzer dog Asta, enjoying glamour and wealth, going to the theatre and being pampered by room service. Until the lawyer of a former client contacts Charles: Renowned inventor Clyde Miller Wynant seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, and now his private secretary has been found shot dead in her flat. Charles is supposed to help solve the case, but he has little desire to do so and would rather destroy the hotel's whiskey supplies. The investigation proceeds with corresponding slowness. Does Wynant's daughter Dorothy have something to do with the murder? Or his ex-wife Mimi, who hated her husband's secretary - and mistress? Then Wynant's lawyer Macaulay receives a letter from his missing client. Nick and Nora find themselves in the darkest corners of Manhattan, in a world of gangsters, hoodlums and speakeasies where no one can be trusted.