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,
Kathrene Pinkerton what she is most known for. Some of her most famous autobiographical books are "Wilderness Wife" (1939), Three's a Crew" (1940)," and "Two Ends to Our Shoestring" (1941)"." She chose to write from and about her experiences, as much of her content matter revolved around the wilderness that she and her family lived in and explored. Kathrene Pinkerton Kathrene Pinkerton (June 9, 1887 – September 6, 1967) was both a fiction and non fiction writer whose writings focused on life in the northern wilderness of Canada. Pinkerton was born on June 9, 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Later, she went on