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Title details for Black Mask 8 by Richard Ferrone - Available

Black Mask 8

The Sound of the Shot: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

#8 in series

by Richard Ferrone
Peter Ganim
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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: "The Sound of the Shot" by Dale Clark; read by Richard Ferrone"Flaming Angel" by Frederick C. Davis; read by Peter Ganim"Odds on Death" by Don M. Mankiewicz; read by David LeDoux"Those Catrini" by Norvell Page; read by Jeff Gurner"Smoke in Your Eyes" by Hugh B. Cave; read by Bart Tinapp"Blood, Sweat and Biers" by Robert Reeves; read by Richard Ferrone

  • Creators

  • Series

    Black Mask

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 5, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781611744804
      • File size: 199634 KB
      • Duration: 06:55:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Swaggering tough guys with guns take on the bad guys while the dames swoon in this collection of novellas from the infamous pulp magazine of the first half of the twentieth century. There are six stories in the collection and five narrators, with Richard Ferrone taking on two stories. All five readers quickly adopt the voice and mannerisms of the tough-talking pulp writers; Ferrone's baritone best captures the tone of the times. You can almost smell the cigarette smoke and taste the whiskey. The narrators evoke the 1940s, making it easy to get lost in the stories. The stories and their themes are timeless, though listeners will have to guess at the meaning of some of the words. M.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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