Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder

And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

De: Richard Connell, Richard Deming, Bruno Fischer, C. M. Kornbluth, Cornell Woolrich, Otto Penzler - editor

Narrado por: Bart Tinapp, Scott Brick, Eric Conger, Johnny Heller

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

©2010 Otto Penzler. Introduction © 2010 Keith Alan Deutsch. (P)2012 HighBridge Company

Reseñas de la Crítica

A Library Journal Best Audiobook Selection

"There is gold in every set.... Hitting like a Tommy gun blast, these pulse-pounding collections will leave mystery hounds panting for the next installment." ( Library Journal)

" Black Mask lives.... Read by top-notch performers." ( BookPage)

Black Mask Stories

Being to listen to these short stories and like the background on authors Give different perspectives

It's very much of its time, making it a hard listen at times

The final audiobook volume from THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF BLACK MASK STORIES, a giant anthology that was divided up for the audiobook release.

Sensitive listeners might wish to skip "The Color Of Honor," a story that's oddly out of place amongst the others, but is virulently racist even as author Richard Cornell tried not to be. There's so much n-word usage that it's painful. Not one of Penzler's smartest selections.

Mostly excellent writing, excellent performances, but that first story drags the collection down.