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...

List of contents

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       

Product details

• Authors: Otto (EDT) Penzler
• Assisted by: Otto Penzler (Editor)
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780307455437
• ISBN: 978-0-307-45543-7
• No. of pages: 1168
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage crime/Black Lizard; Vintage crime/Black Lizard
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense