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The Big Sleep , Farewell My Lovely , The High Window , and Poodle Springs are dramatized by Robin Brooks; The Lady in the Lake , The Little Sister , The Long Goodbye , and Playback are dramatized by Stephen Wyatt. After serving for the Canadian Army during World War I he tried a variety of jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Dabney Oil Syndicate. In 1939 he published his first novel The Big Sleep to instant acclaim in Britain and the US, introducing the world to his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, who later also starred in novels including Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye .

California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. So when Lennox shows up late one night, looking guilty and asking for a ride to Tijuana airport, Marlowe agrees—though he suspects he’s going to regret it. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888. In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in 1954 for novel writing.

A box set collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations of Raymond Chandlers classic novels, featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888. In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in 1954 for novel writing.

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The #1 New York Times -bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. Mark Greaney is the national bestselling author of The Gray Man series of books, the most recent of which is Dead Eye .

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A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. “[Rudnicki's] deep, dispassionate, and sometimes lacerating voice gives a mesmerizing performance, managing to make Ender believable both as a vulnerable boy and as a brilliant military strategist….

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER Notable Book of 2016 -- Washington Post 10 Favorite Books of 2016 -- Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times 10 Best Mysteries of 2016 -- Adam Woog, Seattle Times Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. But as he begins to uncover the haunting story--and finds uncanny links to his own past--he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth. Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye shows that Michael Connelly "continues to amaze with his consistent skill and sizzle" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ). Few mystery novelists make background facts and simple descriptions sing the way this writer does. And no writer exploits Los Angeles - its geography, its historical power wars, its celebrity culture, its lore - as compellingly as Connelly....he must be read." "If any novelist is worthy to walk once more through the front door of Raymond Chandler's iconic Sternwood mansion, it's Michael Connelly. For over two decades, Connelly has been brilliantly updating and enlarging the possibilities of the classic L.A. hard-boiled novel, first bestowed upon the world in 1939 with Chandler's debut, The Big Sleep . Moving effortlessly between Bosch's private and public cases, he ratchets up the tension...pulling off in the final few chapters a California noir sleight of hand that would make Ross Macdonald envious." "In each novel, Connelly has dug deeper into Harry's psyche, as he skillfully does in The Wrong Side of Goodbye ....Connelly's melding of the police procedural, private detective novel and intense character study remains solid. "....it is immensely satisfying to see Bosch's sustained and deepened passion for his mission- "Everybody count or nobody counts" - undiminished by age or circumstance, even as a younger generation of detectives of all colors and orientations share the stage to carry on the work that has given Bosch, and this series, such an enduring appeal.

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. "In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell's forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV's crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking." "This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there." Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell's plots are still taut and tangled. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell's debut with publisher Morrow." "Dr. Kay Scarpetta... [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science." "Bestseller Cornwell's thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta's case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell's. This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing. Everyone knows Scarpetta; she has the wit, intelligence, and strength that any forensic sleuth should own. This never-stop action plot is yet another gift to readers from Patricia Cornwell-a literary artist that is never going to stop writing some of the best and most memorable thrillers out there. Bestseller Cornwell s thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta . pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. Dr. Kay Scarpetta [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science. In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell s forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge - even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV s crack forensic investigators today - and her final scenes are both logical and shocking. VERDICT Deduction is the key to solving this mystery, and Scarpetta fans will relish this nail-biting novel, Cornwell s debut with publisher Morrow. Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her family and friends just keep growing as characters, and Cornwell s plots are still taut and tangled. is an unslacking commitment to doing their jobs right-getting to the bottom of things, in Scarpetta s case; providing complexity and depth and suspense and thrills, in Cornwell s. I should warn you that there s a cliffhanger ending.

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