Melody Malone book prop

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Whilst gathering reference images of the TARDIS from The Angels Take Manhattan, I noticed some of the internal pages of the prop Melody Malone book were legible, and there were sections of text unique enough to create a search criteria for Google.

The text was from Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man, an appropriate choice given the detective noir theme of the story.  The title may have been intentionally, or unintentionally referenced in the script, where the fictional novel denotes Rory as "the thin guy".

The pages visible in the closeup whilst Amy reads are as follows:

Left

the others, and stuffed the others back in his pocket.
"The day after he talked to Macaulay he drew five
thousand out of the bank himself, in cash. On the
28th--this is October, you understand--he had Ma
caulay get another five for him, and twenty-five
hundred on the 6th of November, and a thousand
on the 15th, and seventy-five hundred on the 30th,
and fifteen hundred on the 6th--that would be De
cember--and a thousand on the 18th, and five thou
sand on the 22nd, which was the day before she was
killed."

"Nearly thirty thou," I said. "A nice bank balance he
had."

"Twenty-eight thousand five hundred, to be exact."
Guild returned the envelope to his pocket. "But you
understand it wasn't all in there. After the first call
Macaulay would sell something every time to raise
the dough." He felt in his pocket again. "I got a list of
the stuff he sold, if you want to see it."

I said I didn't. "How'd he turn the money over to
Wynant?"

"Wynant would write the girl when he wanted it,
and she'd get it from Macaulay. He's got her receipts."

"And how'd she get it to Wynant?"

Guild shook his head. "She told Macaulay she used to meet him places he
told her, but he thinks she knew where he was, though she always said
she didn't."

"And maybe she still had that last five thousand on her when she was
killed, huh?"

"Which might make it robbery, unless"--Guild's watery gray eyes were
almost shut--"he killed her when he came there to get it."

"Or unless," I suggested, "somebody else who killed her for some other
reason found the money there and thought they might as well take it
along."

Right

"Sure," he agreed. "Things like that happen all the time. It even
happens sometimes that the first people that find a body like that pick
up a little something before they turn in the alarm." He held up a big
hand. "Of course, with Mrs. Jorgensen--a lady like that--I hope you
don't think I'm--"

"Besides," I said, "she wasn't alone, was she?"

"For a little while. The phone in the apartment was out of whack, and
the elevator boy rode the superintendent down to phone from the office.
But get me right on this, I'm not saying Mrs. Jorgensen did anything
funny. A lady like that wouldn't be likely--"

"What was the matter with the phone?" I asked.

The doorbell rang.

"Well," Guild said, "I don't know just what to make of it. The phone
had--"

He broke off as a waiter came in and began to set a table.

It's unclear if the pages came from a copy of The Thin Man they rejacketed, which is a common approach in producing book props, or if they actually printed the content with a chunk of lifted text.  Normally I'd discount this, but the formatting of the text seems a tad unusual, with some words broken across paragraph lines, rather than bumped down onto the next line.  In addition to this, the pages are absent the novel title at the top of the page.

I'm hoping to include some reference shots once I can post images again.

 

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Melody Malone - The Angels Take Manhattan (2012)

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Cheers for the image reference, warmcanofcoke.