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It’s not an easy thing, following Dashiell Hammett on the podcast site CrimeWAV.com, but that’s exactly what author Bill Crider has done. For this week’s installment of the program, he reads his Edgar Award-nominated short story, “Cranked,” from the “geezer noir” anthology Damn Near Dead. You can listen here, though Crider warns the broadcast is “not safe for work.”

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