Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
Nick Charles was a hard-edged gumshoe for years until his wife Nora's father died and left her an inheritance. After six years living away, he's back in his old haunt, New York, where it seems his very unwelcome past is ready to resurface. Enter...
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 6
Publication Date: Mar 2005
The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties...
Published: Nov 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Yuri Rasovsky
Publication Date: Nov 2008
The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon is considered Dashiell Hammett's finest novel. The story introduces detective Sam Spade, a man of few words who displays little emotion. Hired by a woman - Miss Wonderly - to locate her sister, Spade gives the assignment to his...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: William Dufris
Discs: 6
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Return of the Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last-and most successful-novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to...
Published: Nov 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 8
Publication Date: Nov 2012
The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties...
Published: Nov 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Yuri Rasovsky
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Discs: 5
Publication Date: Nov 2011
The Dain Curse
By: Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Discs: 7
Publication Date: Mar 2012
The Glass Key
By: Dashiell Hammett
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
Discs: 5
Publication Date: Apr 2012