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The Black Lizard big book of Black Mask stories / edited and with a foreword by Otto Penzler ; introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch.

Big book of Black Mask stories (portion title)
Black Mask stories (portion title)
Penzler, Otto, (editor,, author of introduction,, etc.). Penzler, Otto. (Added Author).

Summary:

An anthology culled from "Black Mask" magazine is a tribute to its mastery of the pulp noir genre that includes such stories as "Murder Is Bad Luck" and "Diamonds Mean Death" as well as two full-length novels including Paul Cain's "Fast One."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307455437
  • Physical Description: xix, 1116 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Come and get it / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Cry silence / Fredric Brown -- Arson plus / Peter Collinson -- Fall guy / George Harmon Coxe -- Doors in the dark / Frederick Nebel -- Luck / Lester Dent -- Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- Ten carats of lead / Stewart Sterling -- Murder is bad luck / Wyatt Blassingame -- Her dagger before me / Talmadge Powell -- One shot / Charles G. Booth -- Dancing rats / Richard Sale -- Bracelets / Katherine Brocklebank -- Diamonds mean death / Thomas Walsh -- Murder in the ring / Raoul Whitfield -- Parrot that wouldn't talk / Walter C. Brown -- Let the dead alone / Merle Constiner -- Knights of the Open Palm / Carroll John Daly -- Waiting for Rusty / William Cole -- Rainbow diamonds / Ramon Decolta -- Ring on the hand of death / William Rollins, Jr. -- Body snatcher / Theodore A. Tinsley -- Murder on the Gayway / Dwight V. Babcock -- Key / Cleve F. Adams -- Bloody bokhara / William Campbell Gault -- A taste for cognac / Brett Halliday -- Sauce for the gander / Day Keene -- A little different / W. T. Ballard -- Shrieking skeleton / Charles M. Green -- Drop dead twice / Hank Searles -- Sound of the shot / Dale Clark -- Flaming angel / Frederick C. Davis -- Odds on death / Don M. Mankiewicz -- Those Catrini / Norvell Page -- Smoke in your eyes / Hugh B. Cave -- Blood, sweat and biers / Robert Reeves -- Black bottle / Whitman Chambers -- Corpse didn't kick / Milton K. Ozaki -- Try the girl / Raymond Chandler -- Don't you cry for me / Norbert Davis -- T. McGuirk steals a diamond / Ray Cummings -- Wait for me / Steve fisher -- Ask me another / Frank Gruber -- Dirty work / Horace McCoy -- Merely murder / Julius Long -- Murder in one syllable / John D. MacDonald -- Three apes from the East / H. H. Stinson -- Death stops payment / D.L. Champion -- Color of honor / Richard Connell -- Middleman for murder / Bruno Fischer -- Man who chose the devil / Richard Deming -- Beer-bottle polka / C.M. Kornbluth -- Borrowed crime / Cornell Woolrich.
Subject: Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction > 20th century.
Noir fiction, American.
Genre: Noir fiction, American.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.
Short stories.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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