Dashiell Hammett Audio Books

Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion.

The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple.

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town....

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....

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light.

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective....

A treasure worth killing for, a tough private eye with his own code of ethics, and a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime add up to a haunting gem of detective fiction, now fully dramatized.

After six years living away, Nick Charles is back in his old haunt, New York, where it seems his very unwelcome past is ready to resurface.

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....