{"id":15270,"date":"2016-07-23T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=15270"},"modified":"2016-07-22T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T23:12:10","slug":"audio-drama-review-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/audio-drama-review-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Drama Review: Too Many Have Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Mysteries-Thrillers\/Too-Many-Have-Lived-Audiobook\/B002V0JRK6\/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1469193632&amp;sr=1-1\">Too Many Have Lived<\/a>,\u201d the Hollywood Theater of the Air presents a half hour Black Mask Audio Magazine dramatization of Dashiell Hammett\u2019s Sam Spade short story of the same title.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Spade is hired to find a missing poet by a man who would very much like to marry the man\u2019s wife. When the poet turns up missing, there are plenty of suspects around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo Many Have Lived,\u201d is a fine classic hard-boiled story. It\u2019s no \u201cMaltese Falcon,\u201d but the Theater of the Era does a great job capturing the mood and it\u2019s very well-acted and narrated with a decent amount of sound design. The story has a solidly clever solution that\u2019s worthy of Hammett.<\/p>\n<p>It also serves as a nice sampler for Hollywood Theater of the Ear\u2019s longer works, including a collection of Black Mask stories.<\/p>\n<p>This story is available for free to Audible Members through Audible\u2019s new \u201cMy Content\u201d feature and it also can be purchased by non-members for less than $1.50<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n<p><em>If<\/em> you<em> enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cToo Many Have Lived,\u201d the Hollywood Theater of the Air presents a half hour Black Mask Audio Magazine dramatization of Dashiell Hammett\u2019s Sam Spade short story of the same title. 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