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The Falcon, Vol. 1: The Classic Radio Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 339min

The Falcon radio series aired from 1943 until 1954. "The Falcon" was an alternate identity for detective Michael Waring. Like the Falcon movies, the radio plots mixed danger, romance, and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation he had to deal with. This led into the standard opening, followed by the week's tale of adventure. Often, incompetent police were unable to solve the mysteries without his help. Waring was billed on radio as a freelance detective who was "always ready with a hand for oppressed men and an eye for repressed women". Berry Kroeger, James Meighan, Les Tremayne, Les Damon, and George Petrie portrayed the Falcon during its radio run. The 12 episodes included here, which aired in 1950 and 1951, are" "The Case of the Carved Ham", "The Case of the Gangster's Girl", "The Case of the Mighty Muscle", "The Case of the Invisible Thug", "The Case of the Raw Deal", "The Case of the Harried Husband", "The Case of the Stooge's Errand", "The Case of the Puzzling Pinup", "The Case of the Widow's Gorilla", "The Case of the Rich Racketeer", "The Case of the Double Exposure", and "The Case of the Disappearing Doll". Language: English. Narrator: Les Damon, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008369/bk_blak_008369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gloria , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within. It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more. It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she has made for herself and the one that might be.Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016995/bk_adbl_016995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Snatch!: Dan Fowler: G-Man, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min

Into the arena of the endless war which society wages on the criminal has stepped a new and gallant warrior: Dan Fowler, special agent of the Department of Justice. Tireless, vigilant, and daring, Dan faces the sinister forces of the underworld, determined to wrest the stranglehold of crime from the throat of humanity! Armed with courage and an insuperable power of strategy and deduction, he pits all his strength and energy against the gangster and the racketeer. Death walks ever at his elbow, ready to claim him for its own - this intrepid man-hunter stops at no risk, and no sacrifice is too great for him to make in the line of duty. He is one of the valiant army of G-Men who have brought a new spirit into the campaign against crime! And it is this new spirit - this modern method of tackling the problem of lawlessness - that you will find reflected in G-Men. G-Man Dan Fowler takes the trail of the Grey Gang - that band of masked killers who laugh at the law while committing every heinous crime known to humanity! Dan Fowler, special agent of the Department of Justice, appeared as a long-running series inside G-Men Detective from 1935 to 1953. Join him as he battles the brutal instruments of crimedom. Will Murray's Pulp Classics line of audiobooks are of the highest quality and feature the great pulp fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Epcar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002731/bk_acx0_002731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Queen of the Underworld: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 339min

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times best-selling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees.Emma's avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel, and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club.As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her 20s, who becomes both Emma's obsession and her alter ego. Emma's life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid "usurpation" by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Zimbalist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000766/bk_rand_000766_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Queen of the Underworld: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times best-selling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees.Emma's avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel - and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club.As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her 20s, who becomes both Emma's obsession and her alter ego. Emma's life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid "usurpation" by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carrington Macduffie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000655/bk_bkot_000655_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Looney Tunes Introduction

Looney Tunes Introduction ab 19.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Unmentionables Crazy Cruise Ride Him Bosko! Zoom and Bored Racketeer Rabbit Hook Line and Stinker Ready Set Zoom! Box Car Blues The Heckling Hare The Ducksters Dumb Patrol The Solid Tin Coyote Farm Frolics. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power-and how its legacies shape our world today-told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. "The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented." -The Washington Post Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went-serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world-from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal-and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.

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