Nick and Nora Charles the bantering, romantically involved detective duo has become a well-used trope in literature, stage, screen, and television ever since. The characters first appear in Dashiell Hammett's best-selling last novel "The Thin Man" (1934). Nick is an alcoholic former private detective who retired when he married Nora, a wealthy Nob Hill heiress. Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian Hellman, and the characters' boozy, flippant dialogue on their relationship. (The novel also mentions that Nick was once a Pinkerton detective, as was Hammett.) The novel is considered one of the seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels,
Nick Percival Nick Percival Nick Percival is a British graphic artist and Graphic Novelist primarily known for his published comic book, concept artwork and career in computer animation directing. Percival's first published work was in the monthly British comic "Judge Dredd Megazine" with a horror ‘strange cases’ tale written by Dave Stone. After several similar stories in the "Megazine", he then went on to paint a nine-part story set in Judge Dredd’s world in the Cursed Earth, with the series, "Sleeze 'n' Ryder " where Nick worked with acclaimed writer Garth Ennis. The pair would later work together again for the British