The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Edited and with a foreword by Otto Penzler ; introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch. New York: Vintage Books; Black Lizard, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-307-45543-7
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 hard-boiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly, appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like "Murder Is Bad Luck", "Ten Carats of Lead", and "Drop Dead Twice". Collected here is the best of the best, the hardest of the hard-boiled, 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.
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