John asked:
"And is it the Thin Man films which which created the idea of
the crime being solved by calling all the involved parties
together? Or did someone else create that idea?"
I don't know about in film, but the gathering of the suspects
was a standard feature of the manor house/parlor room
mysteries by Agatha Christie and others. And Hammett himself
had used it earlier in the Maltese Falcon.
Mark
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