The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories

Informationen zum Autor Otto 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. Klappentext An 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword 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 Shri...

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An 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

Contenu

Foreword         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                   &#16…