Black Mask 11 Middleman for Murder, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 11 Middleman for Murder, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder
and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Johnny Heller, Eric Conger, Scott Brick

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/28/2012


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 Color of Honor” by Richard Connell; read by Bart Tinapp “Middleman for Murder” by Bruno Fischer; read by Scott Brick “The Man Who Chose the Devil” by Richard Deming; read by Eric Conger “Beer-Bottle Polka” by C. M. Kornbluth; read by Johnny Heller “Borrowed Crime” by Cornell Woolrich; read by Johnny Heller

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

If you're not familiar with Black Mask, it was one of the better mystery-thriller pulps & Penzler picked out some of the very best for this collection. I'm tempted to put this on the classics shelf. Top notch authors & all the stories were well narrated, really getting the pulp tone down well. There......more

Goodreads review by Stevie

fun, silly, product of its time......more