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: ""Bracelets"" by Katherine Brocklebank; read by Carol Monda""Diamonds Mean Death"" by Thomas Walsh; read by Alan Sklar""Murder in the Ring"" by Raoul Whitfield; read by Jeff Gurner""The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk"" by Walter C. Brown; read by Pete Larkin""Let the Dead Alone"" by Merle Constiner; read by Oliver Wyman"

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9781611744675

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Another two-fisted dream fest for hard-boiled fiction lovers. -- Library Journal --Joseph Wambaugh The Bookwatch Are reminiscent of the swagger, punch, and sass of old-time radio crime dramas. . . . The enthusiastic narrators don't miss a trick. Like B-movie actors stepping up to their stylized roles, they propel these stories along with cleverness and suspense, making this production just plain fun. -- AudioFile --Michael Kardos Another two-fisted dream fest for hard-boiled fiction lovers. Library Journal --Joseph Wambaugh The Bookwatch Are reminiscent of the swagger, punch, and sass of old-time radio crime dramas. . . . The enthusiastic narrators don t miss a trick. Like B-movie actors stepping up to their stylized roles, they propel these stories along with cleverness and suspense, making this production just plain fun. AudioFile --Michael Kardos Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. The Bookwatch Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. -- The Bookwatch

Another two-fisted dream fest for hard-boiled fiction lovers. -- Library Journal --Joseph Wambaugh The Bookwatch Are reminiscent of the swagger, punch, and sass of old-time radio crime dramas. . . . The enthusiastic narrators don't miss a trick. Like B-movie actors stepping up to their stylized roles, they propel these stories along with cleverness and suspense, making this production just plain fun. -- AudioFile --Michael Kardos Another two-fisted dream fest for hard-boiled fiction lovers. Library Journal --Joseph Wambaugh The Bookwatch Are reminiscent of the swagger, punch, and sass of old-time radio crime dramas. . . . The enthusiastic narrators don t miss a trick. Like B-movie actors stepping up to their stylized roles, they propel these stories along with cleverness and suspense, making this production just plain fun. AudioFile --Michael Kardos Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. The Bookwatch Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. -- The Bookwatch

Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. The Bookwatch

Any fan of crime stories and radio shows will find these a compelling listen, spiced with a variety of accomplished narrators. -- The Bookwatch

Author Information

Pete Larkin is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and a 2014 Audie Award finalist. He was the public address announcer for the New York Mets from 1988 to 1993. An award-winning on-camera host, Pete has worked on many industrial films and has done hundreds of commercials, promos, and narrations. Audie Award finalist Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. 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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