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Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara

And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

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Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara

By: Otto Penzler - Editor
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim, David Ledoux
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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:

  • “Body Snatcher” by Theodore A. Tinsley, read by Richard Ferrone
  • "Murder on the Gayway” by Dwight V. Babcock, read by David LeDoux
  • “The Key” by Cleve F. Adams; read by Jeff Gurner
  • “The Bloody Bokhara” by William Campbell Gault; read by Peter Ganim
©2010 Compilation: Otto Penzler. Introduction © 2010 Keith Alan Deutsch. (P)2012 HighBridge Company
Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Traditional Detectives Noir Fiction
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“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 on Volumes 1-3)
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