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Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon - and Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Oliver Wyman, Pete Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-01-11
- Language: English
- Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Regular price: $20.97
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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). 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. Includes:
- “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett; read by Jeff Gurner
- “Cry Silence” by Frederic Brown; read by Oliver Wyman
- “Waiting for Rusty” by William Cole; read by Pete Larkin
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- Robert E. Orlando
- Long Beach, CA USA
- 07-24-12
Maltese Falcon
The Black Mask version of The Maltese Falcon is even better than the version released as a novel. Both are good, but this one was very good. Even if you read/listened to the novel version already, this one is worth it. It is different enough to make it a fresh read.
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- Lawrence
- San Francisco, USA
- 01-14-13
Falcon is better than the novel
This original Black Mask version of the Maltese Falcon was serialised and longer than the novel, so we get more of the good stuff. Well read, well written.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful