The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
Tags: Thriller, Mystery, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: December 1, 2011 Duration: 06:23:24, Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him?, Pauls friend and right hand man, a professional troubleshooter named Ned Beaumont, reluctantly gets involved in the mess, trying to clear Madvigs name and to find out who in a long list of enemies is trying to bring his boss downand ends up in the hospital., Dashiell Hammetts style of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness where sophisticated urbanites move through a tangled gray area between the law and the underworld. Even when one loses track of the plotHammett liked complicated plots, the characters re
