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The Lady in the Lake
- Philip Marlowe, Book 4
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Crime-fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times)
In The Lady in the Lake, hard-boiled crime-fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives - one a rich man's and one a poor man's - who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo, and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
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- Shawna Stone
- 06-25-21
Wish the Ray Porter version was available
Much prefer the reading done by Ray Porter. I cannot understand why that version is unavailable for this book in the US.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Maureen T.
- 06-08-21
Classic story beautifully performed
I’m hooked on Chandler and the LA he describes. Beautifully written, and well plotted,
And brilliantly performed. Outstanding, thank you!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Baranovska
- 06-26-22
music between chapters 😖
Musical interludes between the chapters were really distracting. It actually annoyed me a lot. Why were they there at all?!
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- Alexander Hoskins
- 06-26-22
Wonderful
Great story by Chandler as always. The narrator embodies the style of the fiction well, the music inserts feel like watching parts of an old movie in the best way
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- Dennis Fry
- 01-20-22
The Lady in the Lake
This is my first Raymond Chandler book, but it won’t be my last. Philip Marlowe is a great character. I’ve always liked detective novels. The film noir feeling is enhanced by the music in this Audible rendition. I hope the other Chandler books are as good!
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In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scott Brick at his finest!
- By Nancy on 09-04-21
By: Raymond Chandler
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Trouble Is My Business
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 Terrific Chandler Stories!
- By Matthew on 11-29-20
By: Raymond Chandler
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Playback
- A Philip Marlowe Novel
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Marlowe
- By D. Pierce on 06-22-22
By: Raymond Chandler
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Farewell, My Lovely
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir at it's purest
- By Amazon Customer on 07-26-21
By: Raymond Chandler
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The Glass Key
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 515
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Story4 out of 5 stars 465
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
- By Darwin8u on 05-16-12
By: Dashiell Hammett
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The Big Sleep
- Philip Marlowe, Book 1
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story— Reader not so great
- By A. B. on 02-12-21
By: Raymond Chandler
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Perchance to Dream
- By: Robert B. Parker
- Narrated by: Elliott Gould
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
The Sternwood family, immortalized in The Big Sleep, is in trouble again. Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars. Enter Philip Marlowe, the original tough-but-tender private eye, resurrected by Robert B. Parker, creator of his own phenomenally popular Spenser mystery series.
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4 out of 5 stars
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PARKER CHANNELING CHANDLER
- By thomas on 10-21-11
By: Robert B. Parker
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Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 301
The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries. Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Toby Stephens goes California Noir
- By Adeliese Baumann on 10-21-16
By: Raymond Chandler
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The Dain Curse
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4 out of 5 stars 397
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Literary IMPOSSIBLE bottle.
- By Darwin8u on 05-12-12
By: Dashiell Hammett
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The Thin Man
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,355
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,152
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.
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1 out of 5 stars
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RECORDING IS DEFECTIVE! MISSING SEVEN CHAPTERS!
- By David on 01-08-13
By: Dashiell Hammett
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Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- By: Keith Alan Deutsch, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Oliver Wyman, Alan Sklar, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stuck a knife in my heart
- By Martti on 01-01-12
By: Keith Alan Deutsch, and others
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Best Cases of the Continental Op
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Alison Belle Bews, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
In The Best Cases of The Continental Op, an original compilation of eight stories from Skyboat Media, the Op walks, stalks, and runs down the steep streets of San Francisco to solve crimes of blackmail, murder, stolen identities, and arson, and each story contains so many twists and turns you’ll be hooked until the very (surprising) end....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read, and reading
- By JD DC on 10-13-22
By: Dashiell Hammett
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The Case of the Silent Partner
- Perry Mason Series, Book 17
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
Successful florist Mildred Faulkner finds that the flower business is no bed of roses when arch-competitor Harry Peavis secretly buys stock in her small, family-owned business. To keep from being muscled out of her own company, Mildred goes to Perry Mason. But the legal eagle is stymied when Mildred's company is plundered by her brother-in-law to pay off gambling debts. The money trail leads to a nightclub hostess and her boss. When both are found dead, the trail of evidence leads back to Mildred.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great
- By Anonymous User on 07-10-20
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Black Mask Audio Magazine, Volume 1
- Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask
- By: Hugh B. Cave, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, and others
- Narrated by: Hollywood Theater of the Ear
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 318
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Story4 out of 5 stars 256
In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beware
- By joan on 10-27-11
By: Hugh B. Cave, and others
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Return of the Thin Man
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Nicola Barber, Scott Brick
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance