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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.
- Title
- The Black Lizard big book of Black Mask stories / edited and with a foreword by Otto Penzler ; introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch.
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Penzler, Otto
- Description
- xix, 1116 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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."
- Series Statement
- Vintage crime/Black Lizard original
- Uniform Title
- Black mask
- Vintage crime/Black Lizard original
- Alternative Title
- Big book of Black Mask stories
- Black Mask stories
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Noir fiction, American.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- American fiction – 20th century.
- Mystery fiction
- Noir fiction
- Short stories
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- The 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 -- The dancing rats / Richard Sale -- Bracelets / Katherine Brocklebank -- Diamonds mean death / Thomas Walsh -- Murder in the ring / Raoul Whitfield -- The 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 -- The ring on the hand of death / William Rollins, Jr. -- Body snatcher / Theodore A. Tinsley -- Murder on the Gayway / Dwight V. Babcock -- The key
- Cleve F. Adams -- The bloody bokhara / William Campbell Gault -- A taste for cognac / Brett Halliday -- Sauce for the gander / Day Keene -- A little different / W. T. Ballard -- The shrieking skeleton / Charles M. Green -- Drop dead twice / Hank Searles -- The 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 -- The black bottle / Whitman Chambers -- The 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 -- The color of honor / Richard Connell -- Middleman for murder / Bruno Fischer -- The man who chose the devil / Richard Deming -- Beer-bottle polka / C.M. Kornbluth -- Borrowed crime / Cornell Woolrich.
- ISBN
- 9780307455437
- LCCN
- ^^2010024508
- OCLC
- 503042081
- SCSB-12600497
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library