{"product_id":"the-black-lizard-big-book-of-black-mask-stories-isbn-9780307455437","title":"The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories","description":"An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from \u003ci\u003eBlack Mask \u003c\/i\u003emagazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Mask\u003c\/i\u003e was the apotheosis of noir.  It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared.  It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • Deadly Diamonds \u003cbr\u003e   • Dancing Rats \u003cbr\u003e   • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life \u003cbr\u003e   • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncluding \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • Dashiell Hammett’s \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e as it was originally published \u003cbr\u003e   • Lester Dent's\u003ci\u003e Luck\u003c\/i\u003e in print for the first time\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e         Otto Penzler \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e     Keith Alan Deutsch \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCome and Get It\u003c\/b\u003e                                 Erle Stanley Gardner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCry Silence\u003c\/b\u003e                                           Fredric Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArson Plus\u003c\/b\u003e                                           Peter Collinson \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFall Guy George   \u003c\/b\u003e                                Harmon Coxe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoors in the Dark\u003c\/b\u003e                               Frederick Nebel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuck\u003c\/b\u003e                                                       Lester Dent \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Maltese Falcon                            \u003c\/b\u003eDashiell Hammett \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen Carats of Lead\u003c\/b\u003e                            Stewart Sterling \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurder \u003ci\u003eIs \u003c\/i\u003eBad Luck\u003c\/b\u003e                           Wyatt Blassingame \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer Dagger Before Me\u003c\/b\u003e                      Talmadge Powell \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne Shot Charles\u003c\/b\u003e                               G. Booth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dancing Rats\u003c\/b\u003e                               Richard Sale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBracelets\u003c\/b\u003e                                              Katherine Brocklebank \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiamonds Mean Death\u003c\/b\u003e                      Thomas Walsh \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurder in the Ring\u003c\/b\u003e                              Raoul Whitfield \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk\u003c\/b\u003e        Walter C. 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Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bloody Bokhara\u003c\/b\u003e                          William Campbell Gault \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Taste for Cognac\u003c\/b\u003e                            Brett Halliday \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSauce for the Gander\u003c\/b\u003e                          Day Keene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Little Different\u003c\/b\u003e                             W. T. Ballard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Shrieking Skeleton\u003c\/b\u003e                   Charles M. Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrop Dead Twice\u003c\/b\u003e                                Hank Searls \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sound of the Shot\u003c\/b\u003e                       Dale Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlaming Angel\u003c\/b\u003e                                      Frederick C. Davis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOdds on Death\u003c\/b\u003e                                    Don M. 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