Black Mask Audio Magazine, Volume 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask

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.

The Maltese Falcon (Dramatized)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann

The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged, not only as a great crime novel, but as an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical P.I., "able," as his creator explained, "to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client." And what a client!

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

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Otto Penzler (editor), Keith Alan Deutsch, Erle Stanley Gardner, and others
• Narrated By Eric Conger, Oliver Wyman, Alan Sklar, 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. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

Black Mask 2: Murder Is Bad Luck - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Otto Penzler (editor), Stewart Sterling, Wyatt Blassingame, and others
• Narrated By Alan Sklar, Oliver Wyman, Pete Larkin, 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. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

Red Harvest

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. From the author of The Maltese Falcon.