Black Mask 10 Death Stops Payment, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 10 Death Stops Payment, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 10: Death Stops Payment
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Eric Conger, Carol Monda, Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/31/2012


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:“Dirty Work” by Horace McCoy; read by Bart Tinapp“Merely Murder” by Julius Long; read by Eric Conger“Murder in One Syllable” by John D. MacDonald; read by Jeff Woodman and Carol Monda“Three Apes from the East” by H.H. Stinson; read by Scott Brick“Death Stops Payment” by D.L. Champion; read by Eric Conger

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 Jim on September 03, 2017

This selection of stories certainly wasn't the best I've read/heard from this series even though it had a story by John D. MacDonald, best known for his Travis McGee novels. His story was in the middle of the pack & none of the stories tickled me. The best part was often the author biography that pr......more

Goodreads review by Eric on September 22, 2015

Excellent and funny noir short stories.......more