Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
False Allegations
By: Andrew H. Vachss
Burke, ex-con, mercenary, and rumored hit man, makes his living by preying on New York’s most vicious predators and occasionally avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss’s mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke fnds himself working...
Published: Feb 2013
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 7
Bury The Lead
By: David Rosenfelt
Clever plot twists, deft legal maneuverings, and keen wit are hallmarks of Rosenfelt's third follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut novel, featuring millionaire attorney, Andy Carpenter, who is irreverent, intelligent, sarcastic and dry.
Published: Jun 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Discs: 5
Hot Kid
By: Elmore Leonard
Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period of America's...
Published: May 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tbd
Day of the Dead
By: J. A. Jance
This thriller by the popular author of the J. P. Beaumont series and the Joanna Brady series is the third to take place on the Tohono O'odham reservation in Arizona. Retired Pima County sheriff Brandon Walker is feeling lost and purposeless....
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tim Jerome
Discs: 10
Milk and Honey (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Mysteries)
By: Faye Kellerman
In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tbd
Flood (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this...
Published: Nov 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Vanishing Point (Sharon McCone)
By: Marcia Muller
After finally agreeing to marry her long-time boyfriend Hy Ripinsky, San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone tackles two difficult cases involving a pair of dark marriages, from a long-missing woman who may have led a double life to the...
Published: Jul 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Susan Ericksen
Discs: 1
Dead Men's Boots (Felix Castor)
By: Mike Carey
Dead Men's Boots is the third entry in the critically acclaimed supernatural noir series featuring wisecracking, hardboiled exorcist Felix Castor.
Published: Jul 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
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
The Goliath Bone (Mike Hammer)
By: Mickey Spillane
Mike Hammer is back and fighting terrorists in present-day New York in a thriller that combines the key elements of The Maltese Falcon and The Da Vinci Code.
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Max Allan Collins
Grifter's Game
By: Lawrence Block
From a Noir Master, a Classic Tale of Grift and Greed. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will...
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Alan Sklar
Discs: 5
Blossom (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
The Serpent's Tale
By: Ariana Franklin
Adelia is back in action! Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of medieval fiction in this enthralling historical novel, the second in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
A Question of Belief: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
By: Donna Leon
With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Commissario Guido Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading of history. But...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 8
Mystery Writers of America Presents the Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase
By: Michael Connelly
Nineteen original stories---including a new contribution by New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly---about riveting showdowns between cops and criminals.
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Vanishing Point (Sharon McCone)
By: Marcia Muller
After finally agreeing to marry her long-time boyfriend Hy Ripinsky, San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone tackles two difficult cases involving a pair of dark marriages, from a long-missing woman who may have led a double life to the...
Published: Jul 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Susan Ericksen
Discs: 7
Another Life: A Burke Novel (Burke) (Burke)
By: Andrew H. Vachss
In this cutting and dark thriller series, Burke returns to save the life of his "father," while searching for the abducted child of an oil sheik.The Detroit Free Press has said "There's no way to put a [Vachss book] down once...
Published: Dec 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
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
Chasing the Devil's Tail Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans a Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
By: David Fulmer
In the raucous, bloody, red-light district of Storyville, New Orleans, in 1907, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Dion Graham
Discs: 1
Winter House: A Mallory Novel (Kathleen Mallory)
By: Carol O'Connell
Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. 'O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller,' wrote the San Jose Mercury News. 'A tough and brilliant action-, wit-,...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan
Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux)
By: James Lee Burke
Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with...
Published: Jul 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Will Patton
Discs: 5
Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories
By: Raymond Chandler
Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mystery stories that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. His fast-paced style has become the hallmark of American mystery...
Published: Jan 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Elliott Gould
Discs: 4
Playback
By: Raymond Chandler
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's...
Published: Feb 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Elliott Gould
Discs: 4
The Little Sister
By: Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's gritty detective, performed by Elliott Gould who played the role himself, comes upon another Los Angeles mystery in this newly done audiobook version of The Little Sister. The consummate gumshoe is on the case again, from the...
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Elliott Gould
Discs: 3
Six Suspects: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio)
By: Vikas Swarup
'Investigative journalist Arun Advani probes social and political corruption. His dramatised reports, filled with the chaotic sounds and voices of India, map crimes against the innocent, such as the bargirl shot dead by a wealthy customer. The plots...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
The High Window
By: Raymond Chandler
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Published: Feb 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Elliott Gould
Discs: 3
Gas City
By: Loren D. Estleman
Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces---greed and corruption, ambition and desire---run...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 9
The Goliath Bone
By: Mickey Spillane
World-famous P.I. Mike Hammer is back, this time fighting deadly Islamic extremists whose sinister agenda involves stealing a recently discovered archeological relic: a bone of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath.
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Stacy Keach
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
By: Rex Stout
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is one of the most popular characters in detective fiction, and his adventures have appeared in novels, movies, TV series, and on radio. Nero and his partner Archie Goodwin embody two popular schools of 20th century detective...
Published: Sep 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 9
Killer in the Rain
By: Raymond Chandler
From the master of American detective novels comes this riveting short story collection. In his early works, Chandler laid the groundwork for his signature character, the legendary Philip Marlowe. The hero of such novels as the Big Sleep, and...
Published: Jan 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Elliott Gould
Discs: 5