The glass key
(2012)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2012
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 22 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9780792781226 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11442388, 0792781228 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11442388
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne
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 virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel
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