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Much better than those ratings indicate.
- By Ron on 01-17-12
By: Jim Thompson
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The Roman Hat Mystery
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,233
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,115
Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it's packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful "logic puzzle"--great listen, great fun!
- By Kathi on 02-24-14
By: Ellery Queen
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Death of a Citizen
- Matt Helm, Book 1
- By: Donald Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 989
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 897
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 897
Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Reading
- By David Musser on 06-19-18
By: Donald Hamilton
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The Moving Target
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Story4 out of 5 stars 539
As private eye Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you can get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, misdirected love, and family hatred into an explosive crime novel.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable
- By Bodiccea on 07-07-18
By: Ross Macdonald
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Fer-de-Lance
- By: Rex Stout
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 490
When someone makes a present of a fer-de-lance - the dreaded snake - to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's close to solving two apparently unrelated murders. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case more deadly than a cobra and whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer with poison in his heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best crime series of all time.
- By ShySusan on 03-27-13
By: Rex Stout
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Nightmares and Geezenstacks
- By: Fredric Brown
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he was also a master of the "short-short story", tales only a page or two in length, but hard-hitting and with a wicked twist at the end.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The stories are fun and quick
- By Midwestbonsai on 04-01-18
By: Fredric Brown
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A Hell of a Woman
- By: Jim Thompson
- Narrated by: Thomas Kelly
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores; a wife named Joyce he can't stand; and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't like, with men she doesn't know - she wants out, any way she can get it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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L'enfer, c'est les autres
- By Darwin8u on 07-16-15
By: Jim Thompson
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Somebody Owes Me Money
- A Hard Case Crime Novel
- By: Donald E. Westlake
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 426
Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race; which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great reading of a hilarious novel
- By G. Steyn on 09-12-08
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
- Perry Mason Series, Book 1
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 386
Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enter Perry Mason
- By David S. Mathew on 04-10-17
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The Sins of the Fathers
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,003
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 885
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 882
The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction to a popular series
- By Sharron on 12-26-11
By: Lawrence Block
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Cape Fear (aka The Executioners)
- By: John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz - introduction
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye, Dean Koontz (introduction)
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 149
A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. An insane criminal threatens to destroy a family, and the police are powerless to protect them. For 14 years convicted rapist Max Cady nursed his hatred for Sam Bowden into an insane passion for revenge. He lived only for the day he would be free - free to track down and destroy the man who had put him behind bars. Murder was merciful compared to what Cady had in mind - and what Cady had in mind was Bowden's innocent and lovely teenaged daughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Executioners
- By Darwin8u on 05-21-18
By: John D. MacDonald, and others
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A Bullet for Cinderella
- Booktrack Edition
- By: John D. MacDonald
- Narrated by: Winston Tharp
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Her veneer was big city...but one look and you knew Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack from where she came. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The missing money
- By happyjo on 11-13-18
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour (Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories, Volume One)
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 191
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour. Collected for the very first time are seven unabridged frontier tales from a legendary master of the genre. Volume One celebrates this remarkable voice in American fiction with a captivating blend of some of his best-loved work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy it
- By Garin F on 01-31-11
By: Louis L'Amour
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The Alienist
- By: Caleb Carr
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,541
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,735
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,715
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding on several levels.
- By lyl on 12-30-12
By: Caleb Carr