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Kevin T. Collins
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Jim Thompson
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In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time - or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast - and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of Bugs' new employer....
In Wild Town, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from The Killer Inside Me, which made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse.
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- De Grandma G en 10-22-18
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Red Harvest
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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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. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. From the author of The Maltese Falcon.
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Great story, great narration, terrible reccording
- De yep en 08-21-14
De: Dashiell Hammett
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Somebody Owes Me Money
- A Hard Case Crime Novel
- De: Donald E. Westlake
- Narrado por: Stephen Thorne
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race; which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it.
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Great reading of a hilarious novel
- De G. Steyn en 09-12-08
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Fat Tuesday
- De: Sandra Brown
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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A cop with nothing left to lose, Burke Basile is out to get revenge. Corrupt lawyer Pinkie Duvall has cost him his best friend’s life and his job. Kidnapping Pinkie Duvall’s trophy wife seems the perfect way to get even. There’s just one problem. He doesn’t foresee the electric attraction he’ll feel for this lonely, desperate woman from New Orleans. Sandra Brown’s flair for concocting just the right blend of passion and mystery has made her one of America’s most popular writers.
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More of a Mystery than a Romance
- De bluebelle en 05-15-12
De: Sandra Brown
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Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch
- De: Haywood Smith
- Narrado por: Anne Gartlan
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable 30-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by marrying at 19. But despite her newly dependent situation, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake up to the joys - and perils - of life as a single woman.
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Haywood Smith is royal with this book!
- De Dave en 12-09-12
De: Haywood Smith
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Perchance to Dream
- Selected Stories
- De: Charles Beaumont
- Narrado por: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.
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- De Ralph Freaster en 06-22-16
De: Charles Beaumont
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What the Lady Wants
- De: Jennifer Crusie
- Narrado por: Lola Holiday
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the movies. He’d envisioned a world of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, stunning dames. Instead he saw case after case of cheating husbands, suspicious wives and unsuspecting mistresses…until she walked through the door.
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Story cute, narrator...so-so
- De LeftyMom en 04-02-10
De: Jennifer Crusie
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Cop Hater
- 87th Precinct Series, Book 1
- De: Ed McBain
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to solve the case. With three cops already dead, Carella delves into the city’s underworld to search for the killer.
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Dang, it's about time for the 87th Precinct
- De Eric J. Toll en 05-17-14
De: Ed McBain
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Psycho
- De: Robert Bloch
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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When the Bates Motel looms up out of the storm, Mary Crane thinks it is her salvation. The rooms are musty but clean. The manager, Norman Bates, seems like a nice enough fellow, if a little strange. Then Mary decides to take a shower, and the nightmare begins....
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Nice short book
- De Samantha en 06-26-23
De: Robert Bloch
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another.
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My teenage read.
- De A. Mitchell en 11-11-11
De: Harold Robbins
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The Eighth Commandment
- De: Lawrence Sanders
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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When the Damaretion, the prized Greek coin from Archibald Havistock's collection, disappears and appraiser Mary Lou "Dunk" Bateson comes under suspicion, Bateson, a cop, and an insurance investigator set out to solve the crime.
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It was a nice listen
- De John en 10-01-12
De: Lawrence Sanders
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Midnight Cowboy
- De: James Leo Herlihy
- Narrado por: Michael Urie
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus.
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Superb
- De Macala Shon en 01-26-21
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Wild Town
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- Darwin8u
- 07-03-15
A bit of Crime AND Punishment in West Texas.
Jim Thompson has basically written a locked-room mystery in a West Texas, frontier boom town's seedy hotel.
All the hard-boiled pieces are set. There are several femme fatales, a sheriff that seems to be brilliant and quietly manipulative, a slow-witted, hot-headed house detective, and a shabby hotel. Not my favorite Thompson, but that belittles the truth. I love all Jim Thompson's stuff. He writes from both the head and the gut. Each of his novels seem to contain a bit of Crime AND Punishment. They all seem to balance Freud with Nietzsche. Thompson is one of those novelists that for me at least proves that some of the best fiction of the 20th century was genre fiction. Wild Town seems like a modern-day Notes from the Underground. Thompson isn't just writing about crime and criminals. He is tearing apart the bones of society. He is examining the ideas and ideals of America. You can certainly read Thompson as a transgressive, crime fiction writer, but he is so much more. There is another dark river under the narrative's river and the currents and eddies of both might hydrate or drown you, but will certainly carry you into zones you haven't previously been.
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- 06-25-24
Not my favorite so far, but everything I needed
My biggest hitch in this book initially, was the fact that the sinister sheriff has the same name as the psychopathic sheriff narrator of The Killer Inside Me.
Apparently it was just a coincidence, as far as the books are concerned, but if there was ever a real Lou Ford, I sure wonder what he did to Jim Thompson.
The plot in this is kind of all over the place, but it makes me want to read Thompson's other books about working in oil fields.
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