Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled

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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." — Stephen King When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can't help it: He has to meddle. Especially w...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of...

Otto Penzler

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. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Only Child (Burke Series)

Andrew Vachss

It's been years since Burke has been home, years since he's seen his "family" and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills an...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2011

Perfect Hatred: A Chief Inspector Mar...

Leighton Gage

Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high–profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in b...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2013

The Ways of Evil Men (Chief Inspecto...

Leighton Gage

[Read by Jonathan Davis]As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when he hears of a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to charter a plane to Pará to check it out. Thirty-nine n...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2014

Flood (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bar...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2009

Sacrifice (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

What - or who - could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess pre...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2010

Grifter's Game

Lawrence Block

From a Noir Master, a Classic Tale of Grift and Greed. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee Mys...

John D. MacDonald

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer eve...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2013

The Serpent's Tale

Ariana Franklin

Adelia is back in action! Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of medieval fiction in this enthralling historical novel, the second in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2008

A Question of Belief: A Commissario G...

Donna Leon

With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Commissario Guido Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Down in the Zero (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero.Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke d...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

Stirred (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Se...

J. a. Konrath and Blake Crouch

Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has seen humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. She's lost loved ones. Come close to death countless times. But she always manages to triumph over evil. Luther Kite is humanity at its mos...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2012

Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder: ...

Otto Penzler

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. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2012

Black Mask 7: The Shrieking Skeleton:...

Otto Penzler

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. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick:...

Otto Penzler

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. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2012

Blue Belle (Burke Series)

Andrew H. Vachss

Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering o...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Crisscross (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

"Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages....hugely entertaining." - Dean Koontz Repairman Jack is back! Jack can fix any problem, natural or supernatu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2013

Infernal (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

"F. Paul Wilson is a great storyteller and a thoughtful one." - David Morrell The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGe...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place." — Jonathan Kellerman Travis McGee is taking his retirement in inst...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

The Comedy is Finished

Donald E. Westlake

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Harbingers (Repairman Jack Series)

F. Paul Wilson

It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2015

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2008

Blossom (Burke)

Andrew Vachss

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee ...

John D. MacDonald

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." - Stephen King It only takes one word to get Travis McGee to leave the sunny deck of his houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale for the gray cold ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

The Hunter and Other Stories

Dashiell Hammett

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. Along with the full-length scree...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

A Flash of Green: A Novel

John D. MacDonald

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz.A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the th...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2015

The Turnaround

George P. Pelecanos

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that night reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to ...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

Murder Below Montparnasse: An Aimee L...

Cara Black

DIVParisian private investigator Aimee Leduc is in a tough spot. Her long–time partner and best friend Rene has abandoned their company to move to Silicon Valley, and now Aimee has to handle the whole workload by herself. Her godfat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

Out on the Cutting Edge

Lawrence Block

[Read by Dan Butler]Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudde...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2014
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