E-audiobook
The professional
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415965627 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415965625 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 5:39:17. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Joe Mantegna. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 81268 KB; MP3 file size: 159242 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2010 March
Actor Joe Mantegna delivers a one-man performance. Parker's hard-boiled Boston detective, Spenser, does his usual thing in solving a few murders while philosophizing, clobbering bad guys, and cavorting with his psychoanalyst squeeze, Susan, and scary (but here mostly absent) friend, Hawk. Opening and closing musical snippets comprise the audio enhancements; mostly Mantegna is on his own. He's a strong narrator; the text flows smoothly, and the characters are precisely distinguished. The only distraction is Parker's overuse of dialogue tags (more noticeable on audio than in print). The Boston milieu does not demand Brahmin accents but plain middle America. That's a plus. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
