Audiobooks narrated by Armin Shimerman

"“Don’t be too sure I’m as crooked as I’m supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business.”—Samuel Spade, private investigator “Spade…is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached.”—Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, “able,” as his creator explained, “to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client.” And what a client!—the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O’Shaughnessy. Believing the book’s vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Publishing commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett’s original in the playhouse of the mind."

Dashiell Hammett (Author), Armin Shimerman, Burt Ross, Edward Herrmann, Keith Szarabajka, Laura Gardner, Michael Madsen, Michael Saad, Sandra Oh, Tom Towles, a full cast (Narrator)

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Summer and Smoke

"Alma Winemiller is a shy, religious young woman who grew up pining for the boy next door, John Buchanan. He’s grown up to become a doctor with a penchant for sexual conquest, so when he returns to their Mississippi town to start a medical practice, their strange attraction sets them on a path of turmoil and heartbreak. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in June 2008. Directed by Michael Hackett Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Ann Gee Byrd as Mrs. Winemiller and Rosemary Kristen Frazier as Nellie Mark Kudisch as John Buchanan Jr. Carlos Lacamara as Papa Gonzalez Gabriel Olds as Dusty, Vernon, and Archi Kramer Tina Sánchez as Rosa Gonzalez David Selby as Dr. Buchanan Senior Tegan West as Roger Doremus Armin Shimerman as the Reverend Winemiller Kitty Swink as Mrs. Bassett Sarah Zimmerman as Alma Winemiller Recording, editing and mixing engineer: Mark Holden Live Sound Effects by Eddie Mills Music Supervisor: Scott Willis Original music by Gareth S. Brown"

Tennessee Williams (Author), Anne Gee Byrd, Armin Shimerman, Carlos Lacamara, David Selby, Gabriel Olds, Kitty Swink, Kristen Frazier, Marc Kudisch, Sarah Zimmerman, Tegan West, Tina Sanchez (Narrator)

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Magic Time: Audio Play

"Reality is not what it was. Desperate science run amok has collided with dark sorcery, and together they have ripped open a gaping wound into … something. Now, in an instant, everything is different. The horrific is mundane, the impossible rational. Nothing works and everyone pays. Welcome to … Magic Time. For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it’s just another day in the Big City, full of stress, screw-ups, deadlines, and anxiety. That is until New York is rocked by a series of bizarre tremors—and the lights go off … for good. Trapped in a giant metropolis and cut off from the rest of the world, Cal tries desperately to make sense of the surreal chaos that engulfs his crippled city. Worst of all, the people around him are … changing. Once-ordinary humans are becoming embodiments of their darkest desires, manifestations of their deepest fears. Packs of pale, crouched figures stalk the subways, glowing child-faces peer out of the shadows … and monsters prowl Times Square. And Cal Griffin is not the only one who will be forced into a strange new role in this brave new world of nightmare and wonder. An elevator mechanic turned huntress, a refugee doctor from Chernobyl, and a visionary street wizard all share a staggering responsibility with the young attorney to make sense of the senseless—and to follow an awesome destiny. For they are to be soldiers in a titanic battle between darkness and light. And its raging hellfires will effect the most astonishing transformation of all—turning a young man of pure heart into that rarest of creatures: a hero."

Elaine Zicree, Marc Scott Zicree (Author), Anthony Cohen, Armin Shimerman, Cali Ross, Christina Moses, Crystal Ann Taylor, David Polcyn, Gunner Weber Prada, Ian Federgreen, Joe Ochman, Marta Schulz, Nathaniel Freeman, Neil Kaplan, R. Martin Klein, Richard Tanner, Richard Tatum, Robert Amico, Sara Jo Elice, a full cast (Narrator)

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Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad

"The action-packed alternate fantasy returns for a new generation, featuring fiction from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Michael Cassutt, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lewis Shiner, and more―plus two completely new stories from Kevin Andrew Murphy and bestselling author Carrie Vaughn. Forty years after the Wild Card Virus's release, the World Health Organization decides it's time to take a delegation of Aces, Jokers, politicians, and journalists on a fact-finding mission to learn how other countries are dealing with the virus that reshaped humanity. Leading the team is Gregg Hartmann, a senator with presidential aspirations and a dangerous ace up his sleeve. Joining him is a menagerie of some of the series' best and most popular Wild Cards, including Dr. Tachyon, aces Peregrine and Golden Boy, and jokers Chrysalis, Troll, and Father Squid. From the jungles of Haiti and Peru to the tumultuous political climate of Egypt, from a monastery in Japan to the streets of the most glamorous cities of Europe, the Wild Cards are in for an eye-opening trip. While some are worshiped as actual gods, those possessing the most extreme mutations are treated with a contempt that's all too familiar to the delegates from Jokertown. New alliances will be formed, new enemies will be made, and some actions will fulfill centuries-old prophecies that make ripples throughout the future of the Wild Cards universe. Various Roles Read by a Full Cast of Narrators: "Peregrine" read by Kathleen Turner (Down by the Nile) "Chrysalis" read by Selma Blair "Sen Gregg Hartmann / Puppetman" read by Clancy Brown "Yeoman Brennan" read by Adrian Paul "Xavier Desmond" read by Armin Shimerman (From the Journal of Xavier Desmond) "Dr Tachyon" read by Raphael Sbarge (Mirrors of the Soul) "Cordelia Chaisson" read by Kasey Lansdale (Down in the Dreamtime) "Ti Malice" read by Nicholas Guy Smith "Jayewardene" read by Sanjit de Silva (The Teardrop of India) "Troll" read by Richard Moll (Warts and All) "Sara Morgenstern" read by Emily Rankin "Joann Jefferson" read by Donnabella Mortel (Always Spring in Prague) "Xbalanque" read by Noel Bearheart "Wilfried Molniya" read by Stefan Rudnicki (Legends) "Hunapu" read by Ozzie Rodriguez "Mackie Messer" read by PJ Ochlan "Misha / Kahina" read by Yasmeen Barghouty "Fortunato" read by Prentice Onayemi (Zero Hour)"

George R. R. Martin (Author), Adrian Paul, Armin Shimerman, Clancy Brown, Kathleen Turner, Prentice Onayemi, Richard Moll, Sanjit De Silva, Selma Blair, Various, Yasmeen Barghouty (Narrator)

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Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!: A Very Grimm Tale

"With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves' cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb? These and other burning questions may or may not be answered in this new pseudogothic audio play that Blackstone commissioned from award-winning author and audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky."

Yuri Rasovsky (Author), Armin Shimerman, Barry Creyton, Kate Burton, Keith Szarabajka, Kitty Swink, Melinda Peterson, Meshach Taylor, Ned Schmidtke, Phil Proctor, Robin Sachs, Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, a full cast (Narrator)

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Magic Time

"For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it’s just another day in the Big City—until the lights go off … for good. Suddenly packs of pale crouched figures are stalking the darkened subways, monsters prowl Times Square, and the people all around Cal are … changing. Similar weirdness is happening everywhere, from the dank, cold heart of a West Virginia coal mine to a remote lab in South Dakota—where a team of government scientists has unwittingly invited something catastrophic into the world—to the highest levels of power in Washington, DC. And Cal Griffin is not the only one struggling to comprehend the surreal, devouring chaos surrounding him—nor the only one who will be forced to accept a new role in this brave new world of nightmare and wonder. For the forces bled from the stilled machines are fueling a consciousness both newly born and ancient, and more than one unlikely hero will be needed for the titanic battle between the darkness and the light."

Barbara Hambly, Marc Scott Zicree (Author), Armin Shimerman (Narrator)

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The 34th Rule

"Quark's biggest deal -- by the actor who brings him to life! For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on Deep Space Nine™ truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses first his bar, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!"

Armin Shimerman, David R. George III (Author), Armin Shimerman (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Armin Shimerman

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