The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Otto Penzler
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Otto Penzler
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s

Author: Otto Penzler

Series: Big Book

Narrator: Traci Odom, Eric Jason Martin, Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 73 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020

Synopsis

Containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.

Including:

● Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett

● Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form

● A new Dashiell Hammett story

● Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you've probably never heard

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 Bobby

I'm of two minds about this collection, as I am many of Penzler's collections. There is almost a knee-jerk reaction to give this five stars just because it exists. There is no doubt that there is some great stuff here. Names like Hammett, Cain (Paul and James M.), Chandler, Gardner, Nebel, Charters,......more

Goodreads review by Forrest

Holy Toledo, after living with The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps for nearly three months I finally made it to the end!!! It’s tempting to give this beast of a book five stars for sheer volume alone. Containing two full-length novels alongside dozens of novellas and short stories (53 tales in all!),......more

Goodreads review by John

This book offers a broad overview of pulp fiction. Some of the prose is uneven. And some is admittedly substandard. And then there are those stories by Woolrich--dark and moody, and then suddenly frenetic and fast paced. There are stories by masters of the genre: Hammett, Chandler, Cain, Gardner. Th......more

Goodreads review by Willem

Getting a limited amount of time to write any story and receiving the rather measily salary of a penny per word don't seem like the perfect writing condictions for any writer who wants to be taken seriously. Still, a great deal of young writers would start off in the pulps during the 1920's through......more

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