Black Mask 9 The Corpse Didnt Kick, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 9 The Corpse Didnt Kick, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Alan Winter, Eric Conger, Carol Monda

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2012


Synopsis

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 Black Bottle” by Whitman Chambers; read by Bart Tinapp“The Corpse Didn't Kick” by Milton K. Ozaki; read by Bart Tinapp“Try the Girl” by Raymond Chandler; read by Scott Brick“Don't You Cry for Me” by Norbert Davis; read by Eric Conger“T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond” by Ray Cummings; read by Alan Winter“Wait for Me” by Steve Fisher; read by Carol Monda“Ask Me Another” by Frank Gruber; read by Jeff Woodman 

About Otto Penzler

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. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry

The stories included in this book are dated and therefore fascinating. They are of the pulp paper variety.......more