Red Harvest (Version 2)


Leído por LibriVox Volunteers

(4.5 estrellas; 10 reseñas)

This novel from 1929 introduces Hammett's recurring and always unnamed character, the "Continental Op," who works for the Continental Detective Agency. (Hammett himself worked for the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency for seven years.) By some accounts the first detective novel in America to be classified as "hard-boiled" fiction, Red Harvest has appeared on several “best of” lists, including Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. - Summary by Verla Viera

Capítulos

A Woman in Green and a Man in Gray 16:00 Leído por James Hutchisson
The Czar of Poisonville 17:36 Leído por James Hutchisson
Dinah Brand 15:27 Leído por James Hutchisson
Hurricane Street 16:46 Leído por James Hutchisson
Old Elihu Talks Sense 13:49 Leído por James Hutchisson
Whisper's Joint 13:24 Leído por James Hutchisson
That's Why I Sewed You Up 14:38 Leído por James Hutchisson
A Tip on Kid Cooper 8:38 Leído por James Hutchisson
A Black Knife 17:37 Leído por James Hutchisson
Crime Wanted--Male or Female 11:11 Leído por James Hutchisson
A Swell Spoon 13:48 Leído por James Hutchisson
A New Deal 14:25 Leído por James Hutchisson
$200.10 10:07 Leído por Saje Wenzel
MAX 11:33 Leído por Denis Gagné
Cedar Hill Inn 14:09 Leído por Mokurai
Exit Jerry 7:56 Leído por Mokurai
Reno 16:31 Leído por Rusty Pistols
Painter Street 6:30 Leído por Rusty Pistols
The Peace Conference 12:30 Leído por Brian Fullen
Laudanum 15:46 Leído por Brian Fullen
The Seventeenth Murder 13:16 Leído por Brian Fullen
The Ice Pick 20:24 Leído por Mark Wiskin
Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn 14:12 Leído por Mark Wiskin
Wanted 14:14 Leído por Mark Wiskin
Whiskeytown 10:03 Leído por Brian Fullen
Blackmail 15:37 Leído por Brian Fullen
Warehouses 19:56 Leído por Brian Fullen

Reseñas

Not bad


(3 estrellas)

Tough to keep up in who’s who bc there are so many characters. Most of the readers are good, but it’s too bad LibriVox doesn’t give readers info on how to pronounce names in a book. It would have been helpful to standardize on a pronunciation of Elihu. One reader pronounced Dinah as Deena, and at first I thought it was another character in the story. I think the first version of this book was better. There was only one reader and he was excellent.

Very Good


(5 estrellas)

Excellent story. Readers were good, however, I think the first Librivox version may be superior.

It’s a good one.


(5 estrellas)

Great mobster like story. Some terrific lines!