Research Catalog

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

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Noir fiction, American
• Detective and mystery stories, American
• American fiction > 20th century

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