All Shot Up
A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
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Narrated by:
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Dion Graham
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By:
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Chester Himes
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A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma - and a lot of money missing. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the ones who have to piece it all together.
All Shot Up is chaotic, bloody - and completely unforgettable. Chester Himes wrote detective fiction darker, dirtier, and more extreme than anyone else dared.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. Ex-cop Cliff Bartells might be the last honest man in Florence City, Florida. After quitting the force over a crisis of conscience, he takes a job at an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry. Cliff is focused on keeping the bottom line down and staying out of the spotlight.But when an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Social History ...
- By Montana on 05-14-17
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Cop Hater
- 87th Precinct Series, Book 1
- By: Ed McBain
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 421
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 418
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Dang, it's about time for the 87th Precinct
- By Eric J. Toll on 05-17-14
By: Ed McBain
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The Invaders Plan
- Mission Earth, Volume 1
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4 out of 5 stars 257
They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.
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1 out of 5 stars
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overly abridged
- By Pielle Szabo on 01-10-17
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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Somebody Owes Me Money
- A Hard Case Crime Novel
- By: Donald E. Westlake
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 545
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great reading of a hilarious novel
- By G. Steyn on 09-12-08
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Wise Blood
- By: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,357
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,173
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,171
Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of 20th-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a 22-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a “blind” street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel founds The Church of God Without Christ but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grotesque Southern Gothic Masterpiece
- By Darwin8u on 10-18-12
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Make Room! Make Room!
- By: Harry Harrison
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Story4 out of 5 stars 289
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unable to see
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-21-12
By: Harry Harrison
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Last Call
- By: Tim Powers
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 498
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Story4 out of 5 stars 428
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player 20 years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in 10 years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powers is Under-represented on Audible
- By tim on 01-18-11
By: Tim Powers
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
- Perry Mason Series, Book 1
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 438
Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enter Perry Mason
- By David S. Mathew on 04-10-17
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Don’t Say a Word
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
They're watching. They've wiretapped the apartment. They've got their daughter. They told them they'd hurt her if they spoke about it. They told them, "Don't say a word...." Or else....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yeesh. Good story. But..
- By jewelia on 02-19-24
By: Andrew Klavan
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Koko
- Blue Rose Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 366
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 331
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Story4 out of 5 stars 334
KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 hours in and I am done
- By bionichands on 01-26-12
By: Peter Straub
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Flood
- A Novel (Burke, Book 1)
- By: Andrew Vachss
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 427
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4 out of 5 stars 327
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 bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir!
- By Snoodely on 03-06-14
By: Andrew Vachss
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Spade & Archer
- The Prequel to The Maltese Falcon
- By: Joseph Gores
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 147
When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. Spade & Archer completes the picture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"A Real Joy"
- By Mark on 04-14-09
By: Joseph Gores
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Night Life
- By: David C. Taylor
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,114
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,110
New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary United States intelligence agency, and the bodies of murdered young men are turning up all over the city.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific in every way
- By Martha on 04-12-16
By: David C. Taylor
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Shetani's Sister
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 115
In many ways Iceberg Slim's most mature fictional work, Shetani's Sister relates, in taut, evocative vernacular torn straight from the street corner, the deadly duel between two complex antiheroes: Sergeant Russell Rucker, an LAPD vice detective attempting to clean up street prostitution and police corruption, and Shetani (Swahili for Satan), a veteran master pimp who controls his stable of whores with violence and daily doses of heroin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the story
- By steve ware on 07-29-19
By: Iceberg Slim
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Mine
- By: Robert R. McCammon
- Narrated by: Isabelle Gordon
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 410
Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade - a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen - Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell's only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American Radical nightmare!
- By Rob Malone on 04-30-18
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- leongork
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Great dialogue
Chester Himes tells a story as it happened, in colorful language used by his colorful characters. I love listening to expressions used by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed. The reader brings it all to life. He becomes the characters. A great book to listen to.
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wow.. Walter did it again.As always from the 1st sentence these books are always fast and to the point.I love the warm feeling I get when I hear Dion mention each place in Harlem that most of Us Black People know.. I am a Fan..Thanks Walter
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