The great thing about this audio book is that it's more like a radio play. It's not just someone reading a book, we have a narrator and different people that play the parts of Nick and Nora as well as all the supporting players. Even though the description on the back calls these novellas their really scripts that Hammett wrote. That's why the audio version is the perfect version to have, it adds to the fun. I'm not normally somebody that listens to audio books, this is the first one that I've ever finished.