Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot : And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine (Black Mask)

Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot : And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine (Black Mask)

Title: Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot : And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine (Black Mask)
Author: Otto Penzler
Release: 2012-06-05
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
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Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot : An Otto Penzler
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: “The Sound of the Shot” by Dale Clark; read by Richard Ferrone“Flaming Angel” by Frederick C. Davis; read by Peter Ganim“Odds on Death” by Don M. Mankiewicz; read by David LeDoux“Those Catrini” by Norvell Page; read by Jeff Gurner“Smoke in Your Eyes” by Hugh B. Cave; read by Bart Tinapp“Blood, Sweat and Biers” by Robert Reeves; read by Richard Ferrone

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