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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 have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
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In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
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Beware
- De joan en 10-27-11
De: Hugh B. Cave, y otros
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The Hunter and Other Stories
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Ray Chase, Stephen Bowlby, Brian Holsopple, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length treatments On the Make and The Kiss-Off, this collection includes never before and rarely published stories that explore failed romance, courage in the face of uncertainty, hypocrisy, and crass opportunism.
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Not Just A Crime Writer
- De Joshua en 07-12-14
De: Dashiell Hammett
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The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective: Volumes One & Two
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Howard Duff, Steve Dunne
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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Steely. Seasoned. Smart-alecky. The storied San Francisco snooper is back! Share the exciting exploits of Dashiell Hammett's famous gumshoe through this thrilling 6-hour collection. Featuring all of the episodes from both our Volume One and Volume Two collections, Howard Duff and Steve Dunne star as Sam Spade in 12 madcap capers from 1946 - 1951. As crass as he is charismatic, this dynamic detective attracts a curious clientele - gentlemen who tend to drop dead and ladies who are drop-dead gorgeous.
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Bring Back Howard Duff
- De Jean G. Zorn en 06-14-14
De: Dashiell Hammett
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The Maltese Falcon
- The Maltese Falcon
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Tom Wilkinson, Jane Lapotaire, Peter Vaughan, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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It's San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam's partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley's story turns out to be a lie.
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A fun adaptation of a fun book
- De Peter Giordano en 04-07-20
De: Dashiell Hammett
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The Big Sleep
- Philip Marlowe, Book 1
- De: Raymond Chandler
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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I miss Ray Porter
- De Kindle Customer en 03-22-22
De: Raymond Chandler
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The Tenth Clew and Eight Other Continental Op Stories
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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This collection consists of nine crime novellas which were originally published in magazine form in 1924. The plots of Hammett’s stories were drawn from his actual experience as a Pinkerton detective. Hammett viewed the process of detective work not as the pursuit of a few elusive clues, but rather the tedious business of extracting relevant evidence from an overabundance of information.
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Good stories that would have been better with another narrator.
- De Dana E. Yelverton en 08-19-24
De: Dashiell Hammett
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- grumpus
- 01-23-15
Great snakes!
I love Hammett, every word is dingy poetry. A great yarn and the use of color is amazing. I recommend it!
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- Bette
- 12-17-11
Cobbled Noir
Hammett's noir fiction language is the most interesting aspect of this audiobook, and Ferrone has a wonderful voice for noir. The unnamed detective goes from one crime to another starting with a diamond theft. The plot elements seem cobbled together and the detective's attempts to understand the connections are tediously laid out.
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- Teacher/Reader
- 02-24-17
Expected more from Dashiell Hammett.
Great narrator. I found the story somewhat contrived and a bit disappointing. Blatant racism.
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- Constant Reader
- 02-18-21
A Confusion Within a Muddle
There are certainly some fine, Hammett-worthy moments in this book. But ultimately, it feels like three stories, gummed together with library paste, the combination explained at the end with a long-winded, and utterly nonsensical "reveal." Hammett tosses in everything but space alien abductions and a cameo of Satan himself. I came away thinking I had just wasted too much of seven hours and 43 minutes on some utter hogwash. Was he drinking bathtub gin when he wrote this?
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- Joshua
- 04-06-15
The Continental Op Does An X-File
The Dain Curse is probably the weakest of Hammett's novels, and definitely the strangest. The overall arc is told via three detective stories: the first is about the Op investigating a diamond burglary, the second has him investigating cult weirdness, and the third has him investigating small-town weirdness, with a short detour that reveals a more compassionate side. The stories, being so different, give the whole thing a off-kilter feel. The characters don't always convince, and there are quite a few of them to keep track of by the end.
That said, I still enjoyed the book. It may not be The Maltese Falcon, or even Red Harvest, but it's still three hardboiled yarns written by one of the greats. It benefits from Hammett's splendid prose, constant plot twists, a surreal atmosphere, and Richard Ferrone's gravelly narration. I don't regret spending a credit on it, and I think that's the main thing.
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- Patricia Knowlton
- 09-07-20
gotta love classic detective stories.
From the Maltese Falcon to the Dane Curse I love the convolutions of the classic detective story. It also reaffirms my belief that nothing really changes and that people aren't any better or worse as time goes by...m
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- Tony 0625
- 07-26-21
Hammett read by Ferrone!
As with Ferrone’s reading of Red Harvest, it’s tough to imagine a better combination than these two. If you like Ferrone’s reading of John Sanford’s Lucas Davenport, you’ll love his readings of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op. I only wish I could find Ferrone’s readings of every Hammett story.
I’m sure I’ll come back to these in the future.
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- JEB
- 09-28-21
More Random
This story was not up to my expectations of Hammett. Narration was great. Just seemed disjointed, and characters were killed or disappeared without seemingly good reason. Don't judge Hammett solely based on Rain Curse.
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- Rosalinda Torres
- 02-14-23
The Dain Curse
Mr. Hammett kept me listening until the last word! I was completely enthralled. Very, very good!
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- Darwin8u
- 05-12-12
A Literary IMPOSSIBLE bottle.
I think Dashiell Hammett made this novel into a type of literary impossible bottle. I admire his work, and generally followed the puzzled steps, but at the end just think he went a strata too deep. Don't get me wrong, I DO love Hammett and liked this book a lot. It just isn't in the same class as: Red Harvest, The Thin Man or The Maltese Falcon.
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