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The Glass Key
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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The Glass Key
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Publisher's Summary
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 innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett - author of The Maltese Falcon - virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel.
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- Uncle Bosco
- 2023-05-11
You will never forget the full name of the protagonist
A classic tale that helped define the hard boiled detective genre. It’s a fun listen but every time the protagonist is named, it is his full first and last name together. No other character receives this treatment. For me, it was a curio more than a distraction, but others may find it otherwise.
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- Linda graham
- 2022-01-14
good book
enjoyed listening to this book. I did find the repetitive use of the main characters a bit annoying.
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