
The Glass Key
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Narrated by:
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Stephen R. Thorne
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By:
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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 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.
©1931 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © renewed 1958 by Dashiell Hammett. All rights reserved. (P)2011 AudioGoListeners also enjoyed...




















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Also, I did not think the narrator was an especially skilled reader, which is why I wish there were a way of previewing books on Audible.
Uneventful and humourless
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Hard boiled classic
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Noir Potboiler
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Great while gardening!
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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
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I’m not sure if there was a bad guy, but if there was, I didn’t like him either.
The writing was meh; the surprises were nonexistent; the atmosphere was bland; and there was an absolute absence of humor or irony.
Maybe Hammet was trying to be hard boiled, but it feels like he just phoned this one in.
Dispassionate and Disappointing
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what's so hard boiled...!?!?
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Not his best
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