The Dain Curse

Return of the Thin Man

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Peter Ganim, Nicola Barber, Scott Brick
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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 write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas for the films that became After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man.

Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Otto Penzler (editor), Keith Alan Deutsch, Erle Stanley Gardner, and others
• Narrated By Eric Conger, Oliver Wyman, Alan Sklar, and others

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

The Thin Man

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By William Dufris

Enjoy this classic mystery on its 75th anniversary! The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client. Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities.

The Maltese Falcon

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Eric Meyers
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first serialized in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941. But it was the book that created the classic "noir" genre with its tough private detective threading his cool way between the criminals and the law. Sam Spade, the private eye solving the mystery of the Maltese statuette, was the template for Philip Marlowe and a host of others…. but they come no more shrewd and cunning with Hammett peppering the text with one-liners.

The Glass Key

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Stephen R. Thorne
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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, Hammett invented the noir crime novel.