The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories

Publisher Marketing: An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from "Black Mask "magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. "Black Mask" was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like "Murder Is Bad Luck," "Ten Carets of Lead," and "Drop Dead Twice." Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America's finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America's underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring - Deadly Diamonds - Dancing Rats - A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life - A Parrot that Wouldn't Talk Including - Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" as it was originally published - Lester Dent's" Luck" in print for the first time Review Citations: Booklist 08/01/2010 pg. 30 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2012 pg. 10 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) Men's Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 55 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) Library Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 105 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 08/09/2010 (EAN 9780307455437, Paperback) - *Starred Review Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 58 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 116 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 09/17/2007 pg. 32 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2007 pg. 956 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) New Yorker (The) 01/28/2008 pg. 83 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Men's Journal 11/01/2007 pg. 63 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Time 07/14/2008 pg. 68 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) New York Times Book Review 11/18/2007 pg. 21 (EAN 9780307280480, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 08/25/2014 (EAN 9780307743961, Paperback) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014 (EAN 9780307743961, Paperback) Shelf Awareness 11/04/2014 (EAN 9780307743961, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Penzler, Otto Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop, the founder of the Mysterious Press, the creator of Otto Penzler Books, and the editor of many books and anthologies.