Black Mask 5 The Ring on the Hand of..., Otto Penzler
Black Mask 5 The Ring on the Hand of..., Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Johnny Heller, Erik Bergmann, Dan Bittner

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2012


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: “Knights of the Open Palm” by Carroll John Daly; read by Erik Bergmannthe “Rainbow Diamonds” series of stories (“Diamonds of Dread,” “The Man in White,” “The Blind Chinese,” “Red Dawn,” “Blue Glass,” and “Diamonds of Death”) by Ramon Decolta; read by Johnny Heller“The Ring on the Hand of Death” by William Rollins Jr.; read by Dan Bittner

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 Cindy B. on September 13, 2021

A few good stories, a good couple of narrators, a couch and tea makes for a fine evening, now all I need is another in this series. Which I have enjoyed so far … I hope you do as well. Clean.......more

Goodreads review by Becca on May 28, 2024

Well narrated noir stories. The biographical and historic tidbits that introduce each story are always interesting. And the stories are fun easy mysteries to listen to on long car rides. One unique thing about this particular edition was the second author's story “The Ring on the Hand of Death” by W......more