Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk

And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Carol Monda, Alan Sklar, Jeff Gurner, Pete Larkin, Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

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:

• Bracelets by Katherine Brocklebank; read by Carol Monda
• Diamonds Mean Death by Thomas Walsh; read by Alan Sklar
• Murder in the Ring by Raoul Whitfield; read by Jeff Gurner
• The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk by Walter C. Brown; read by Pete Larkin
• Let the Dead Alone by Merle Constiner; read by Oliver Wyman

©2010 Compilation, Otto Penzler. Introduction, Keith Alan Deutsch. (P)2011 HighBridge Company