Black Mask 3 The Maltese Falcon, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 3 The Maltese Falcon, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Oliver Wyman, Jeff Gurner, Pete Larkin

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2011


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 Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett; read by Jeff Gurner“Cry Silence” by Frederic Brown; read by Oliver Wyman“Waiting for Rusty” by William Cole; read by Pete Larkin

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 Becca

what was interesting about this one is it contains the original serialized version of the Maltese Falcon. According to the blurb before the book it was heavily edited before it was released as a single story. I listened to both versions several years apart so I don't remember enough to notice differ......more

Intriguing plots (Maltese Falcon plus 2 short but equally interesting stories), clean, and well performed by different narrators. Loving this series of classic pulp fiction, am on to the next one. 👍🏼......more

Goodreads review by Steven

In the1920’s and 30’s, America fell in love with detective stories. To meet the demand for crime fiction, several pulp magazines were born, featuring works of short detective fiction by a variety of authors who were unknown at the time, but who became very famous in the years hence. Dime Detective,......more