Black Mask 8 The Sound of the Shot, Otto Penzler
Black Mask 8 The Sound of the Shot, Otto Penzler
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Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim, David Ledoux

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2012


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 Sound of the Shot” by Dale Clark; read by Richard Ferrone“Flaming Angel” by Frederick C. Davis; read by Peter Ganim“Odds on Death” by Don M. Mankiewicz; read by David LeDoux“Those Catrini” by Norvell Page; read by Jeff Gurner“Smoke in Your Eyes” by Hugh B. Cave; read by Bart Tinapp“Blood, Sweat and Biers” by Robert Reeves; read by Richard Ferrone

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 David on November 18, 2015

Like the others in this series, some are great, and there a few clunkers. This one only had one bad story, but it was a really bad story, about a guy who killed his wife and now his daughter is acting like the dead wife. But the other tales were great and then the last story was awesome, the writer......more