Thank you, Tony! I appreciate hearing Dashiell Hammett read; having spent years reading his works. Good choice in narrator. Thank you, Richard Rose! Very well narrated. I find your voice very soothing; pleasant to hear. Happy listener. 😍
An almost perfect narration - just needed a few commas. Recently read “Red Harvest”, quite a body count. The intro/outro music is great. Thanks for the stories.
Thanks Tony. 🕵🏼 A new narrator ( as promised 🙂). Definitely a Northern Exposure to his accent. ? Thank you Mr R. S. Rose. Great job. Mr Walker sets a very high standard, and you did him justice. 👏👏
I'm glad everything worked out. Sometimes, you have to wait three to six months and cast your net again, especially if you are looking for a particular sound. Love the old detective stories; a good one is very evocative. Old downtown San Francisco has a special feel to it, with fog, foghorn, and traffic. Can't wait to hear the next one!
You just don't hear "It was duck soup" nowadays. Looking forward to NOT hearing "like" ever again. Bizarre the number and kinds of unthinking people who say it several times in even a single sentence!
The voice is spot on for this one, however I did find it a little confusing as the character/sentence changeover sometimes seemed indistinct and I had to relisten to untangle who was saying what to who. Maybe an extra breath here and there? Still really enjoyable! Thank you
Ok. You need two American accents. NY & CA. Hammett writes about NY. Philip Marlowe is Los Angeles but they often do him with a NY accent which misses the whole tone. Wanna hear the difference? Two pre-disco records that came out around the same year in 1970s; Roy Ayers (LA) and Jimmy Castor Bunch (NY). Notice how few word Ayers uses and how many Castor does use. CA talks sloooow. They draw out words. They're cool, not anxious & they all morn the fact that they have no soul. NY people are hot, anxiety ridden, hard and have lots of heart under the surface. Ayers: ua-cam.com/video/nC9dQOnUyao/v-deo.htmlsi=jUm_0Mu71zu7aqsi Castor: ua-cam.com/video/LXgZEWKpT6M/v-deo.htmlsi=RlX0gBBb3a4iWQCZ
@@tomcurran8470 T-hellll thahht towoo thaha Kar-daahhsh-iahhns. Or Chaka Khan (A different accent from the Kardashians, but still an CA accent) when she sings "Yerrr not giving yerrr haeeert to anyone"
Ironically, Howard Duff, the radio Sam Spade, was taken off the show because of the Red Scare/McCarthy hearings. I didn't know Hammett was also a "victim" of this.
Dashiell Hammett's Dark Side Hammett was married to his wife from 1921 to 1937. In 1931, Hammett embarked on a 30-year romantic relationship with the playwright Lillian Hellman. Hammett devoted much of his life to left-wing activism. He was a strong antifascist throughout the 1930s, and in 1937 joined the Communist Party. On May 1, 1935, Hammett joined the League of American Writers (1935-1943), whose members included Lillian Hellman, Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Clifford Odets, and Arthur Miller. Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers. Hammett served time in a West Virginia federal penitentiary, where, according to Lillian Hellman, he was assigned to clean toilets. Hellman noted in her eulogy of Hammett that he submitted to prison rather than reveal the names of the contributors to the fund because "he had come to the conclusion that a man should keep his word." Hellman wrote that during the 1950s, Hammett became "a hermit". Hammett could no longer live alone, and they both knew it, so he spent the last four years of his life with Hellman.
Well, I love your classic ghost stories, but I am really into detective stories especially the late 1800 early 1900s. So this narrator was OK but to be honest Tony I love your American accent and would prefer you doing them though I know you can’t do it all. Very enjoyable story though I’m hooked. 48:10
Thank you, Tony! I appreciate hearing Dashiell Hammett read; having spent years reading his works. Good choice in narrator. Thank you, Richard Rose! Very well narrated. I find your voice very soothing; pleasant to hear. Happy listener. 😍
Glad you enjoyed it!
The narration was wonderful! It drew me right into the story.
Old time detective in San Francisco, my home town--can't be better. Love the narration. Very enjoyable. Blather away! !!!!
Yeah, I'm in San Leandro. I love stories that are set in the Bay area. A great one is Jack London's, The Scarlet plague.
An almost perfect narration - just needed a few commas. Recently read “Red Harvest”, quite a body count. The intro/outro music is great. Thanks for the stories.
Thanks Tony. 🕵🏼
A new narrator ( as promised 🙂).
Definitely a Northern Exposure to his accent. ?
Thank you Mr R. S. Rose. Great job.
Mr Walker sets a very high standard, and you did him justice.
👏👏
I'm glad everything worked out. Sometimes, you have to wait three to six months and cast your net again, especially if you are looking for a particular sound. Love the old detective stories; a good one is very evocative. Old downtown San Francisco has a special feel to it, with fog, foghorn, and traffic. Can't wait to hear the next one!
I’ve got another one lined up
In San Francisco, Gough Street is pronounced “Goff”.
interestingly that’s how we say Gough where i’m from too
Thanks for pointing that out. Jeeeeezus+
I'm new to hammett and I'm hooked!
Fantastic work
The narrator's voice would be well suited to a psychopath character, but for this, it's distractingly weird and creepy.
I am Tony ,I like this story, it's really interesting,It makes me glad to listen to your stories
Glad you enjoy it!
You just don't hear "It was
duck soup" nowadays.
Looking forward to NOT hearing "like" ever again. Bizarre the number and kinds of unthinking people who say it several times in even a single sentence!
Great narrator! Sounded hard and old time dective- like!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
The voice is spot on for this one, however I did find it a little confusing as the character/sentence changeover sometimes seemed indistinct and I had to relisten to untangle who was saying what to who. Maybe an extra breath here and there? Still really enjoyable! Thank you
Thanks for your comments :)
Ok. You need two American accents. NY & CA. Hammett writes about NY. Philip Marlowe is Los Angeles but they often do him with a NY accent which misses the whole tone. Wanna hear the difference? Two pre-disco records that came out around the same year in 1970s; Roy Ayers (LA) and Jimmy Castor Bunch (NY). Notice how few word Ayers uses and how many Castor does use. CA talks sloooow. They draw out words. They're cool, not anxious & they all morn the fact that they have no soul. NY people are hot, anxiety ridden, hard and have lots of heart under the surface.
Ayers: ua-cam.com/video/nC9dQOnUyao/v-deo.htmlsi=jUm_0Mu71zu7aqsi
Castor: ua-cam.com/video/LXgZEWKpT6M/v-deo.htmlsi=RlX0gBBb3a4iWQCZ
Great analysis!
Californians don't have accents, LOL. Boston, NYC, Philadelphia/Jersey and there are various Southern accents.
@@tomcurran8470 T-hellll thahht towoo thaha Kar-daahhsh-iahhns. Or Chaka Khan (A different accent from the Kardashians, but still an CA accent) when she sings "Yerrr not giving yerrr haeeert to anyone"
And Gough (Gow) is pronounced Goff St....
Ironically, Howard Duff, the radio Sam Spade, was taken off the show because of the Red Scare/McCarthy hearings. I didn't know Hammett was also a "victim" of this.
Dashiell Hammett's Dark Side
Hammett was married to his wife from 1921 to 1937. In 1931, Hammett embarked on a 30-year romantic relationship with the playwright Lillian Hellman.
Hammett devoted much of his life to left-wing activism. He was a strong antifascist throughout the 1930s, and in 1937 joined the Communist Party. On May 1, 1935, Hammett joined the League of American Writers (1935-1943), whose members included Lillian Hellman, Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Clifford Odets, and Arthur Miller. Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers.
Hammett served time in a West Virginia federal penitentiary, where, according to Lillian Hellman, he was assigned to clean toilets. Hellman noted in her eulogy of Hammett that he submitted to prison rather than reveal the names of the contributors to the fund because "he had come to the conclusion that a man should keep his word."
Hellman wrote that during the 1950s, Hammett became "a hermit". Hammett could no longer live alone, and they both knew it, so he spent the last four years of his life with Hellman.
Well, I love your classic ghost stories, but I am really into detective stories especially the late 1800 early 1900s. So this narrator was OK but to be honest Tony I love your American accent and would prefer you doing them though I know you can’t do it all. Very enjoyable story though I’m hooked. 48:10
Doesn't work.
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Thanks 🙏
Blather on.
I really like your blethering
Thank you ☺️
The narration???
Not great pacing on this narration. I’m not trying to be overly critical, but hopefully with some practice he gets better.
And he needs to learn how to pronounce the San Francisco street names! It’s Goff not Gow for Gough Street.
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Fourth view.
Not good narration
Ai sucks
this is a human