Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Otto Penzler
• Narrated By Carol Monda, Alan Sklar, Jeff Gurner, and others

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.

Black Mask 6 The Bloody Bokhara: The Bloody Bokhara and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Otto Penzler
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone, David LeDoux, Jeff Gurner, and others

>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).

Black Mask 7: The Shrieking Skeleton - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Otto Penzler (editor), Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and others
• Narrated By Peter Ganim, Richard Ferrone, Jeff Gurner, and others

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).

The Dain Curse

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Otto Penzler
• Narrated By Erik Bergmann, Johnny Heller, Dan Bittner

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.