Overview

"From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by ""the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine"" (Booklist).Otto Penzler selected and wrote introductions to the best of the best, the darkest of these dark, vintage stories for the collection The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Now that collection is available for the first time on audio.Includes: ""Body Snatcher"" by Theodore A. Tinsley; read by Richard Ferrone""Murder on the Gayway"" by Dwight V. Babcock; read by David LeDoux""The Key"" by Cleve F. Adams; read by Jeff Gurner""The Bloody Bokhara"" by William Campbell Gault; read by Peter Ganim"

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9781611744736

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All top-shelf thrillers. . . . Hard-boiled fiction fans are in for loads of fun as this series is proving to be one great listening experience after another. HighBridge, keep 'em coming! -- Library Journal [starred review]--Joseph Wambaugh

All top-shelf thrillers. . . . Hard-boiled fiction fans are in for loads of fun as this series is proving to be one great listening experience after another. HighBridge, keep em coming! Library Journal [starred review]--Joseph Wambaugh

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Coming soon... Peter Ganim is an actor, director, and since 2005, a narrator of audiobooks. He lives in New York City. Coming soon... Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award.

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