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Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

Release Date: 10/24/2006

Episode 18: Hombre show art Episode 18: Hombre

Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

You can also find us at iTunes. Hombre was written in 1959 and published in 1961. In 1977, Hombre was named one of the twenty-five best western novels of all time by the Western Writers of America. The motion picture, directed by Martin Ritt was produced in 1967. The   was produced by John Marshall Media and Caitlin Garing and released in February 2017 by Harper Collins.

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Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

You can also find us at iTunes. Audible has set up a where you can get the best versions of all four audiobooks mentioned in the podcast (Pronto, Riding the Rap, When the Women Come Out to Dance ("Fire in the Hole"), and Raylan). Two of these audiobooks -- Grover Gardner's reading of Pronto, and Frank Muller's version of Riding the Rap -- had previously been hard to locate so we urge you to check them out and support Audible for making them available. Oddly, for Elmore Leonard -- and it's perhaps a tribute to the popularity of the TV show -- Raylan is also  and appears to be...

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Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

You can also find us at iTunes. Update 2012: Great news: Audible has made available the . (At the time we did the podcast, there was no authorized digital download of Touch. Copies of the audiobook could only be acquired via eBay or other second-hand sellers.) By the way, there is another 1996 audiobook of Touch from Books on Tape, narrated by Alexander Adams aka Grover Gardner. We had a copy of that one but it somehow disappeared from our collection.

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Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

You can also find us at iTunes. has licensed 's version of The Hunted to Audible. You can find it . As we noted, The Hunted has not been made into a movie. There is of The Hunted read by narrator Alexander Adams (aka Grover Gardner) whom we featured when discussing  We haven't been able to get a copy of the Adams version (originally released by Books on Tape as cassette only) so if readers know where one can be had, let us know.

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Dutch Treat: The Audiobooks of Elmore Leonard

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UPDATE 2012: More good news. Audible now offers  the Frank Muller Cat Chaser (the Borders/Recorded Books version narrated by Frank Muller and released on five cassettes in 1995 from Recorded Books). Used copies of the same version issued by Borders & Recorded Books are available from Amazon and other used audiobook sources. The Listen for Pleasure/DHP version narrated by Ken Howard and released on two cassettes in 1989 is no longer in print and is available used from Amazon and other used audiobook sources. (We're glad that one's not available for download, it's the worst abridgement, ever.) The Canadian DHP version narrated by Max Winston and released on two cassettes in 1995 is no longer in print and is available used from Amazon and other used audio book sources. The 1989 film version of Cat Chaser starring Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, and Charles Durning is available on VHS and DVD format Amazon and other video retailers and is also available for rent from Netflix. Note. Charles Durning, who is highlighted in the podcast, has appeared in three Elmore Leonard films, Cat Chaser, Stick, and The Rosary Murders (an original screenplay).