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OverviewAn unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time Full Product DetailsAuthor: Otto Penzler , Otto Penzler , Keith Alan DeutschPublisher: Penguin Random House LLC Imprint: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 1.236kg ISBN: 9780307455437ISBN 10: 0307455432 Pages: 1136 Publication Date: 21 September 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword Otto Penzler Introduction Keith Alan Deutsch Come and Get It Erle Stanley Gardner Cry Silence Fredric Brown Arson Plus Peter Collinson Fall Guy George Harmon Coxe Doors in the Dark Frederick Nebel Luck Lester Dent The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Ten Carats of Lead Stewart Sterling Murder Is Bad Luck Wyatt Blassingame Her Dagger Before Me Talmadge Powell One Shot Charles G. Booth The Dancing Rats Richard Sale Bracelets Katherine Brocklebank Diamonds Mean Death Thomas Walsh Murder in the Ring Raoul Whitfield The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk Walter C. Brown Let the Dead Alone Merle Constiner Knights of the Open Palm Carroll John Daly Waiting for Rusty William Cole Rainbow Diamonds Ramon Decolta The Ring on the Hand of Death William Rollins Jr. Body Snatcher Theodore A. Tinsley Murder on the Gayway Dwight V. Babcock The Key Cleve F. Adams The Bloody Bokhara William Campbell Gault A Taste for Cognac Brett Halliday Sauce for the Gander Day Keene A Little Different W. T. Ballard The Shrieking Skeleton Charles M. Green Drop Dead Twice Hank Searls The Sound of the Shot Dale Clark Flaming Angel Frederick C. Davis Odds on Death Don M. Mankiewicz Those Catrini Norvell Page Smoke in Your Eyes Hugh B. Cave Blood, Sweat and Biers Robert Reeves The Black Bottle Whitman Chambers The Corpse Didn’t Kick Milton K. Ozaki Try the Girl Raymond Chandler Don’t You Cry for Me Norbert Davis T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond Ray Cummings Wait for Me Steve Fisher Ask Me Another Frank Gruber Dirty Work Horace McCoy Merely Murder Julius Long Murder in One Syllable John D. MacDonald Three Apes from the East H. H. Stinson Death Stops Payment D. L. Champion The Color of Honor Richard Connell Middleman for Murder Bruno Fischer The Man Who Chose the Devil Richard Deming Beer-Bottle Polka C. M. Kornbluth Borrowed Crime Cornell WoolrichReviewsAuthor InformationOtto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He is the founder of The Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books, and has received an Edgar Award, an Ellery Queen Mystery Award, and a Raven Award for his contribution to the mystery field. His anthology The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps was a New York Times bestseller. Keith Alan Deutsch is the publisher and proprietor of BlackMaskMagazine.com, the rights holder for several American pulp classic magazines, including Dime Detective, Strange Detective Mysteries, Terror Tales, and Black Mask. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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