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The Glass Key
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LENGTH6 hrs and 23 mins
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RELEASE DATE12-09-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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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 AudioGo
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"Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks"
I loved it. I thought Hammett was amazing before, but the Glass Key just solidified it. Definitely his tightest, most coherent novel. The characters were sharp, the pacing was quick, the plot was Goldilocks. No wonder the Coen brothers couldn't get enough.
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"WORST EVER!!"
What disappointed you about The Glass Key?This is possibly the worst book I have ever read! I was shocked at how poor the writing is. I have read at least 4 Dashiell Hammett books and most were quite good, but this one should never have gotten past his editor, or I'm tempted to say that he couldn't possibly have had one.
I quit at the end of the third CD(out of five) without really knowing just what the plot is, and who the characters are, and what their positions are. Many of Hammett's descriptors are inappropriate, teenage level.
I don't understand how this book got such high review ratings.
Would you ever listen to anything by Dashiell Hammett again?I'm not sure I would try another Hammett without listening to a good representative part of it.
What didn???t you like about Stephen R. Thorne???s performance?The reader isn't bad, but not particularly good, either.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Glass Key?What scenes would I have cut? Just about all of them.
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