Audiobooks by The Devault-Graves Agency
A Bad Woman by James M. Cain
A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel set in the post-War 1940s of Reno, Nevada.
Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him.
Hollywood bigwigs want to keep the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there's a gun in the room and a dead husband. Did Shoreham do it? Or was it an elaborate suicide?
$6.95, 2 hours, 59 minutes, 2015 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
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A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel set in the post-War 1940s of Reno, Nevada.
Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him.
Hollywood bigwigs want to keep the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there's a gun in the room and a dead husband. Did Shoreham do it? Or was it an elaborate suicide?
$6.95, 2 hours, 59 minutes, 2015 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay by Tom Graves
Colin Hay, the former frontman for the best-selling Australian rock group Men at Work, narrates his first audiobook with Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay.
Hay, who has toured the world as a solo performer and achieved critical acclaim as a raconteur along with his intimate songs, has also acted in films and done voicework for the Disney organization.
Award-winning author Tom Graves wrote new translations of 25 classic Aesop's tales that instantly connect with children of the new millennium yet retain the old world flavor so beloved by young and old alike.
$5.95, 1 hour, 5 minutes, 2017 (Kids)
Narrated by Colin Hay
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Colin Hay, the former frontman for the best-selling Australian rock group Men at Work, narrates his first audiobook with Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay.
Hay, who has toured the world as a solo performer and achieved critical acclaim as a raconteur along with his intimate songs, has also acted in films and done voicework for the Disney organization.
Award-winning author Tom Graves wrote new translations of 25 classic Aesop's tales that instantly connect with children of the new millennium yet retain the old world flavor so beloved by young and old alike.
$5.95, 1 hour, 5 minutes, 2017 (Kids)
Narrated by Colin Hay
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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Arguably his finest post-On the Road novel, Big Sur captures Jack Kerouac (here named Jack Duluoz) trying to escape the clamor of beatnik adulation by retreating to a peaceful cabin in Big Sur, California.
What begins as a pastoral regeneration descends into a personal hell when Kerouac suffers an alcoholic breakdown. Written in Kerouac's elegantly poetic and rapid-fire prose, Big Sur is both beautiful and horrific, a clear-eyed recollection of facing down his many demons and willing himself to survive them.
$19.95, 6 hours, 10 minutes, 2017 (American Literature Classics)
Narrated by David Angelo
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Arguably his finest post-On the Road novel, Big Sur captures Jack Kerouac (here named Jack Duluoz) trying to escape the clamor of beatnik adulation by retreating to a peaceful cabin in Big Sur, California.
What begins as a pastoral regeneration descends into a personal hell when Kerouac suffers an alcoholic breakdown. Written in Kerouac's elegantly poetic and rapid-fire prose, Big Sur is both beautiful and horrific, a clear-eyed recollection of facing down his many demons and willing himself to survive them.
$19.95, 6 hours, 10 minutes, 2017 (American Literature Classics)
Narrated by David Angelo
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Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves
This stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend.
According to some, Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that the Devil had returned to take his due.
This diligent study of Johnson's life debunks these myths while emphasizing the effect that Johnson, said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived, has had on modern musicians such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones.
$14.95, 3 hours, 45 minutes, 2013 (Artists, Writers & Musicians)
Narrated by Tom Graves
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This stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend.
According to some, Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that the Devil had returned to take his due.
This diligent study of Johnson's life debunks these myths while emphasizing the effect that Johnson, said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived, has had on modern musicians such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones.
$14.95, 3 hours, 45 minutes, 2013 (Artists, Writers & Musicians)
Narrated by Tom Graves
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Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassidy is one of Jack Kerouac's most tender recollections of his past, focusing on his first true love when he was a high school senior and a local star athlete.
Filled with the sweet innocence of youth and the daily heartbreak of quarrels and unfulfilled sexual yearnings, Kerouac employs his stylishly Beat observations toward the nostalgic time period of pre-World World II torn between the companionship of his gang of buddies and the sirens' call of the title character.
$19.95, 5 hours, 30 minutes, 2016 (Fiction)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
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Maggie Cassidy is one of Jack Kerouac's most tender recollections of his past, focusing on his first true love when he was a high school senior and a local star athlete.
Filled with the sweet innocence of youth and the daily heartbreak of quarrels and unfulfilled sexual yearnings, Kerouac employs his stylishly Beat observations toward the nostalgic time period of pre-World World II torn between the companionship of his gang of buddies and the sirens' call of the title character.
$19.95, 5 hours, 30 minutes, 2016 (Fiction)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Murder at the Bijou by Jim Thompson
Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson's dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A.
Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads that can use a helping hand and someone with half a brain for business. The theater's owner, Elizabeth, isn't the smartest operator around—or is she? Joe and Elizabeth decide maybe it would be better for business if they got married. Why not? And then Carol shows up.
They've got insurance coverage on the movie house; their lives would all be better if the place maybe had an accident, a little fire. But things can go very wrong. And in Murder at the Bijou, they do.
$14.95, 4 hours, 51 minutes, 2015 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson's dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A.
Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads that can use a helping hand and someone with half a brain for business. The theater's owner, Elizabeth, isn't the smartest operator around—or is she? Joe and Elizabeth decide maybe it would be better for business if they got married. Why not? And then Carol shows up.
They've got insurance coverage on the movie house; their lives would all be better if the place maybe had an accident, a little fire. But things can go very wrong. And in Murder at the Bijou, they do.
$14.95, 4 hours, 51 minutes, 2015 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Penrod, Booth Tarkington's classic and hilarious tale of one 11-year-old boy's unceasing series of misadventures in an early 20th-century Midwestern town, has fallen into disrepute in some quarters for ethnic descriptions and dialogue that many today find offensive.
We have taken the bold step of abridging the original text and removing questionable passages and rewriting select portions so that children and adults may now read this delightful novel without the insensitivities of the past that many found objectionable.
This revised edition of Penrod has been edited seamlessly so that Tarkington's purposely florid prose is kept lovingly intact. Penrod is particularly well-suited to young people of middle school and high school age who not only can relate to Penrod's mischief, but can appreciate the expansive vocabulary Tarkington employs to comedic effect.
$19.95, 6 hours, 5 minutes, 2018 (Literature & Fiction/Humor & Satire)
Narrated by Tony Scheinman
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Penrod, Booth Tarkington's classic and hilarious tale of one 11-year-old boy's unceasing series of misadventures in an early 20th-century Midwestern town, has fallen into disrepute in some quarters for ethnic descriptions and dialogue that many today find offensive.
We have taken the bold step of abridging the original text and removing questionable passages and rewriting select portions so that children and adults may now read this delightful novel without the insensitivities of the past that many found objectionable.
This revised edition of Penrod has been edited seamlessly so that Tarkington's purposely florid prose is kept lovingly intact. Penrod is particularly well-suited to young people of middle school and high school age who not only can relate to Penrod's mischief, but can appreciate the expansive vocabulary Tarkington employs to comedic effect.
$19.95, 6 hours, 5 minutes, 2018 (Literature & Fiction/Humor & Satire)
Narrated by Tony Scheinman
Buy now from Audible.
Sharecropper Hell by Jim Thompson
In Sharecropper Hell (originaly titled Cropper's Cabin) 19-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he's got some mighty tall odds stacked against him—a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with his wealthy landowner's daughter, a step-mother devoid of maternal instincts, and even his own short-tempered, prideful ways.
The odds only get worse when Tommy is fingered for murder in this shocking, twisting tale that explores sex, American Indian rituals, simmering race politics in mid-20th century Oklahoma and, of course, crime.
$19.95, 5 hours, 14 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
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In Sharecropper Hell (originaly titled Cropper's Cabin) 19-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he's got some mighty tall odds stacked against him—a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with his wealthy landowner's daughter, a step-mother devoid of maternal instincts, and even his own short-tempered, prideful ways.
The odds only get worse when Tommy is fingered for murder in this shocking, twisting tale that explores sex, American Indian rituals, simmering race politics in mid-20th century Oklahoma and, of course, crime.
$19.95, 5 hours, 14 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
The Killing by Lionel White
The boys said it couldn't be done—knocking over a racetrack. Too much security. Too much money to handle. Too many obstacles. But Johnny Clay knew, if anyone did, how to mastermind a daring robbery.
You just had to have the right people to work with, a few ringers on the inside who could keep their mouths shut, and a diversion. A big diversion. Like taking out the favorite horse on the most anticipated race with a high-powered rifle. Things can go right, and things can go wrong. But Johnny knew his plan could work. If only everyone did his part without cracking.
The Killing (originally titled Clean Break) by the master of capers, Lionel White, is what many people consider the greatest heist novel of all time. This book was made into a classic noir film by Stanley Kubrick.
$14.95, 4 hours, 58 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
The boys said it couldn't be done—knocking over a racetrack. Too much security. Too much money to handle. Too many obstacles. But Johnny Clay knew, if anyone did, how to mastermind a daring robbery.
You just had to have the right people to work with, a few ringers on the inside who could keep their mouths shut, and a diversion. A big diversion. Like taking out the favorite horse on the most anticipated race with a high-powered rifle. Things can go right, and things can go wrong. But Johnny knew his plan could work. If only everyone did his part without cracking.
The Killing (originally titled Clean Break) by the master of capers, Lionel White, is what many people consider the greatest heist novel of all time. This book was made into a classic noir film by Stanley Kubrick.
$14.95, 4 hours, 58 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
The Secret Squad by David Goodis
In David Goodis's bruising crime novel The Secret Squad, lead character Corey Bradford is on the skids and on a quick trip to boozeville. He was a plainclothes cop who got caught with his hands in pockets where they didn't belong and he was pushed out the precinct door.
But he was still just as fast with his mitts as he was his wits, and others took notice. Such as mob kingpin Walter Grogan, a man who didn't take no for an answer. But Bradford is also recruited by the notorious Night Squad, a secret arm of the police that doesn't knock before entering. And they don't take no for an answer either.
Originally titled The Night Squad, this vintage noir page-turner features flying fists, smoking barrels, lipsticked blondes, and a very bad part of town called the Swamp.
$19.95, 6 hours, 58 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
In David Goodis's bruising crime novel The Secret Squad, lead character Corey Bradford is on the skids and on a quick trip to boozeville. He was a plainclothes cop who got caught with his hands in pockets where they didn't belong and he was pushed out the precinct door.
But he was still just as fast with his mitts as he was his wits, and others took notice. Such as mob kingpin Walter Grogan, a man who didn't take no for an answer. But Bradford is also recruited by the notorious Night Squad, a secret arm of the police that doesn't knock before entering. And they don't take no for an answer either.
Originally titled The Night Squad, this vintage noir page-turner features flying fists, smoking barrels, lipsticked blondes, and a very bad part of town called the Swamp.
$19.95, 6 hours, 58 minutes, 2014 (Mysteries & Thrillers)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Three Early Stories by J.D. Salinger
This anthology of J.D. Salinger's early works is a previous No. 1 best selling audiobook on Audible.com. The first story, “The Young Folks,” first published in 1940, peers into New York’s cocktail society and two young people talking past one another, their conversation almost completely meaningless and empty.
The next short story, “Go See Eddie,” is a tale of quiet menace, as an unsavory male character gradually turns up the pressure on a young lady to see a man named Eddie. Also first published in 1940, the story is notable for the backstory that is omitted — a technique that Hemingway used to great effect.
Four years later toward the end of Salinger’s war experience saw the publication of “Once A Week Won’t Kill You." Ostensibly about a newly minted soldier trying to tell an aging aunt he is going off to war, some may see the story as a metaphor for preparing one’s family for the possibility of wartime death.
$3.95, 39 minutes, 2014 (Fiction)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
This anthology of J.D. Salinger's early works is a previous No. 1 best selling audiobook on Audible.com. The first story, “The Young Folks,” first published in 1940, peers into New York’s cocktail society and two young people talking past one another, their conversation almost completely meaningless and empty.
The next short story, “Go See Eddie,” is a tale of quiet menace, as an unsavory male character gradually turns up the pressure on a young lady to see a man named Eddie. Also first published in 1940, the story is notable for the backstory that is omitted — a technique that Hemingway used to great effect.
Four years later toward the end of Salinger’s war experience saw the publication of “Once A Week Won’t Kill You." Ostensibly about a newly minted soldier trying to tell an aging aunt he is going off to war, some may see the story as a metaphor for preparing one’s family for the possibility of wartime death.
$3.95, 39 minutes, 2014 (Fiction)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
In 1955, Jack Kerouac detoured from his cross-country American travels to Mexico City where a group of junkie expatriates he had known from the New York City post-War scene had gone for the cheap and plentiful supply of heroin and morphine.
Fellow Beat writer William S. Burroughs had introduced Kerouac to Bill Garver (named Old Bull Gaines in the novel), who had in turn introduced Kerouac to Esperanza Villanueva (Tristessa). Kerouac fell under the spell of Tristessa's dark allure and exotic surroundings. Tristessa, however, proved to be a far more troubled and contentious companion than Kerouac had bargained for.
$6.95, 2 hours, 14 minutes, 2016 (American Literature Classics)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
In 1955, Jack Kerouac detoured from his cross-country American travels to Mexico City where a group of junkie expatriates he had known from the New York City post-War scene had gone for the cheap and plentiful supply of heroin and morphine.
Fellow Beat writer William S. Burroughs had introduced Kerouac to Bill Garver (named Old Bull Gaines in the novel), who had in turn introduced Kerouac to Esperanza Villanueva (Tristessa). Kerouac fell under the spell of Tristessa's dark allure and exotic surroundings. Tristessa, however, proved to be a far more troubled and contentious companion than Kerouac had bargained for.
$6.95, 2 hours, 14 minutes, 2016 (American Literature Classics)
Narrated by Mike Dennis
Buy now from Audible.
Weegee: The Autobiography by Arthur Fellig
Arthur "Weegee" Fellig not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography was written toward the end of Weegee's life before he was the photographic legend he is today.
Here he tells the story of how an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Zlothev, Austria, came to grips with one of the toughest cities in the world and made it his own. In wisecracking prose that is a match for his unblinking ferocity behind the camera, Weegee recounts his days of taking tintypes of kids on ponies and how this knowledge of the streets and neighborhoods of New York led to him being the first on the scene of the city's every murder, disaster and heartbreak.
$14.95, 4 hours, 22 minutes, 2016 (Bios & Memoirs)
Narrated by Clay Lomakayu
Buy now from Audible.
Arthur "Weegee" Fellig not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography was written toward the end of Weegee's life before he was the photographic legend he is today.
Here he tells the story of how an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Zlothev, Austria, came to grips with one of the toughest cities in the world and made it his own. In wisecracking prose that is a match for his unblinking ferocity behind the camera, Weegee recounts his days of taking tintypes of kids on ponies and how this knowledge of the streets and neighborhoods of New York led to him being the first on the scene of the city's every murder, disaster and heartbreak.
$14.95, 4 hours, 22 minutes, 2016 (Bios & Memoirs)
Narrated by Clay Lomakayu
Buy now from Audible.