Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories

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.

Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler
• Narrated By Toby Stephens, Trevor White, Saskia Reeves, and others

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

The Dain Curse

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

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.

Black Mask 2: Murder Is Bad Luck - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Otto Penzler (editor), Stewart Sterling, Wyatt Blassingame, and others
• Narrated By Alan Sklar, Oliver Wyman, Pete Larkin, 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.