The Maltese falcon [sound recording] : an audio dramatization / by Dashiell Hammett.
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SoundPublisher number: Z4876 | Blackstone AudioPublication details: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, p2008.Description: 3 sound discs (3 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 143325249X
- 9781433252495
- Dashiell Hammett's The maltese falcon, an audio dramatization
- Produced & directed by Yuri Rasovsky.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Audiobook | MYSTERY Hammett Das | Available | 33111006595009 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business."--Samuel Spade, private investigator "Spade...is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached."--Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, "able," as his creator explained, "to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client." And what a client --the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Believing the book's vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Audio commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett's original in the playhouse of the mind.
Compact discs.
Duration: 3:30:00.
Title from container.
Unabridged.
Produced & directed by Yuri Rasovsky.
Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann and a distinguished cast.
In this fully casted audio dramatization, a beautiful damsel in distress hires San Francisco private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer to trail the man whom she thinks kidnapped her sister. When Archer is murdered on a stakeout, however, Spade is implicated in the crime. However, that is only the tip of the iceberg. As Spade digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a much greater mystery involving a valuable statue and an assortment of colorful and dangerous characters.