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The Villiers Touch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min

An unscrupulous businessman targets a family chemical company. Though his business cards read “Mason Villiers”, that is not his name. His respectable lower-middle-class upbringing - with its innocent stories of hot rods and prom queens - is a lie. Though an expert on finance, he has no formal education. The man who calls himself Mason Villiers was raised on the streets of Chicago’s rough South Side, and once he clawed himself out of the gutter he decided no one should know where he came from. His past doesn’t matter. Villiers is headed for the top, no matter how many throats he must cut along the way. Having made a name for himself in swashbuckling business dealings, Villiers plans a hostile takeover of a family-owned chemical company. Although Melbard Chemical’s stock hovers at rock bottom, Villiers makes an astronomical offer. Melbard Chemical has a valuable secret, and there is no one more ready to exploit it than Villiers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roy Samuelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006188/bk_adbl_006188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Selected Articles on the Life and Career of Harry Gordon Selfridge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 246min

Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947) was an American born merchant who built Selfridge’s, a London department store, which opened in 1909. Using his 25 years of experience at Chicago’s Marshall Field and Co., Selfridge initiated the use of American innovations and methods of business in his London store. These articles reflect how Selfridge was viewed by the press in the U.S. and London along with how he was seen by his fellow merchants and tradesmen during the years his store was built and thrived. There are also a number of sections in Selfridge’s own words. He loved publicity and was very interested in the ideas of his competitors, employees, and how business was done in other countries. This collection contains articles and excerpts from newspapers, books, magazines, and trade publications published from 1890-1922. Harry Gordon Selfridge and his store were the basis of the PBS Masterpiece Classic series, “Mr. Selfridge". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000798/bk_mike_000798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Without a Fight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 268min

It’s summertime on Chicago’s South Side, and Caleb has it made. He’s about to start high school, his mom got him and his sister out of government housing, and his best friend, D, has their future all planned. But when a dead dog turns up in a dumpster, the summer takes a sick turn. Rumors of dog fighting begin to swirl, a big-bellied cop starts poking around the block, and Sway, a small-time gang banger with something to prove, starts pressuring the boys to join his operation. D can always talk their way in and out of all kinds of trouble, but now trouble has teeth and fur, guns tucked into waistbands, and mean-eyed boys acting like men. Overnight, the neighborhood transforms into a forest of monsters on the prowl, and if Caleb wants to make it through the summer, he’ll need to find a voice of his own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136704/bk_acx0_136704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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We All Fall Down , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min

Chicago cop turned private investigator Michael Kelly is racing to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed underground. When a lightbulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city’s grim West Side. Hospitals become morgues. L trains are converted into rolling hearses. Finally, the government acts, sealing off entire sections of the city - but are they keeping people out or in? Meanwhile, Michael Kelly’s hunt for the people who poisoned his city takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s West Side gangs and the even more frightening world of black biology - an elite discipline emerging from the nation’s premier labs, where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrecy.It’s a brave new world...and the most audacious and addictive tale yet from an emerging modern master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002704/bk_rand_002704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Road to Nowhere , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min

He is a man alone, a drifter haunting the back roads and highways of America. Every town he leaves behind preserves but a glimmer of him, the cool, handsome man with the teardrop scar whose presence fades with the sunlight. But all that changes when a brutal assault forces him to play Good Samaritan for a beautiful young woman, placing him squarely in the crosshairs of a vengeful ex-con. Caught between duty to his fellow man and the anonymity of life on the road, the Samaritan struggles to resist the forces drawing him into a shadowy world of violence, intrigue, and deception. When his estranged teenage daughter is threatened, the Samaritan will make his choice - and never look back. Reaching from Chicago’s back alleys to West Hollywood’s sun-soaked streets to Wall Street’s vast corridors of power, this suspenseful novel introduces an unforgettable new hero to the ranks of contemporary American fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004554/bk_brll_004554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Kill Your Darlings: A Mallory Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min

Mallory is back and facing a two-fisted whodunit: Who’s responsible for the just-discovered “lost novel” by the celebrated author of The Maltese Falcon? Is it the master, Dashiell Hammett, himself, or a very cunning counterfeiter? And who’s behind the shocking, suspicious demise of Roscoe Kane, a hard-drinking, hard-boiled crime-novel pioneer? Aptly enough, this one-two punch of a puzzle is the talk of Bouchercon, the famed convention where mystery scribes gather to honor (and murder?) their own. But Mallory may be the only one who’s tired of talking. He’s got a heavy-duty hunch, a hotel full of suspects, and a hard lesson to teach…namely, you don’t mess with a man’s heroes. Chicago’s dark side may be no place for armchair detectives, but Mallory’s no stranger to true crime. And before he leaves the Windy City, he means to strike more than a few blows in defense of his fallen comrades…and against the evil that men do. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004523/bk_brll_004523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Deadlock: A V.I. Warshawski Mystery, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder - this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell - or was pushed - off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin’s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter, V. I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer, including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom’s lover, an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003815/bk_brll_003815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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They Tell Me You Are Crooked: Duncan Cochrane, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min

Two years after the murder of his daughter, Governor Duncan Cochrane must hunt down a sniper and a blackmailer.Two years have passed since the murder of Duncan Cochrane’s daughter. As governor, he now holds the power to punish all criminals, yet he cannot prosecute her killer without destroying his political career.Then two new threats emerge: A sniper begins targeting people in Chicago’s most notorious housing project, Cabrini Green, and a blackmailer plans to reveal his ruinous family secret.To protect his own family and those he governs, he moves into the tenements and begins parallel manhunts for both enemies. Along the way, he faces menacing gangs, a mysterious layman, indifferent police, and self-serving politicians, all of whom impede his investigations.Evolved Publishing presents the second audiobook in the series that details Duncan Cochrane’s rise to prominence and the personal cost of his public ambitions. The Duncan Cochrane series by David Hagerty:Audiobook one: They Tell Me You Are WickedAudiobook two: They Tell Me You Are Crooked ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darren Todd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120628/bk_acx0_120628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Day of the Destroyers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min

Based on a real historical event during the Roosevelt administration! Guest starring pulp heroes The Green Lama, The Phantom Detective, and The Black Bat! Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy. Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicago’s rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, racing to stop a machine of fantastic destruction in Manhattan, and so much more! Written by pulp fictioneers Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, and Joe Gentile. Introduction by pulp wordsmith Bobby Nash! Authors: Gary Phillips Bobby Nash Tommy Hancock Aaron Shaps Gerry Westerson Ron Fortier Eric Fein Joe Gentile Paul Bishop Adam Lance Garcia ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Milan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104614/bk_acx0_104614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mystery Men (& Women) Volume Four , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

Airship 27 Productions offers up another quartet of new, original pulp heroes by today’s finest pulp writers. "A Waltz in Scarlet": From the pages of the Shadow Legion comes the Ferryman, a blind man who sees through the eyes of ghosts. Created by Thomas Deja. "Cult of the Stranger": The popular Eel and Adder, aided by another mystery man ally, must take on a gang of modern Thuggees loose in the city. Created by Joel Jenkins. "The Cult of Kali Kill" is another rousing adventure starring Chicago’s most unique avenger, the bumbling hero, the Bagman, as invented by B. C. Bell. "The Grey Mantis Strikes", wherein a masked martial artist races the clock to save a group of kidnapped children. Created by C. William Russette. Four thrill-a-minute tales of suspense, mystery, and action that keep the true spirit of the classic pulps alive and well for today’s listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Formichella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105346/bk_acx0_105346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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