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Dashiell hammett audiobooks download instantly today. The author of the maltese falcon, red harvest, and the thin man, hammett has an enduring reputation as the godfather of the hardboiled detective genre and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. Hes a gritty, nononsense, toughasnails detective on a mission to rid personville of its corrupt riffraff. He followed that novel with the thin man in 1932 which introduced the incomparable and charming sleuths nick and nora charles. Among the enduring characters he created are sam spade the maltese falcon, nick and nora charles the thin man, and the continental op red harvest and the dain curse. Time magazine included hammett s 1929 novel red harvest on a list of the 100 best englishlanguage novels published between 1923 and 2005. If publisher alfred knopfs wife, blanche, never scooped up the manuscript, our pop culture landscape would be very different. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 214 pages and is available in paperback format.