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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, 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.

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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Noir fiction, American.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.
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