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Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine Audiobook, by Otto Penzler Play Audiobook Sample

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

Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine Audiobook, by Otto Penzler Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Erik Bergmann, Johnny Heller, Dan Bittner Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Black Mask Magazine Series Release Date: February 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781611744712

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

58:23 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

35:40 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

45:04 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

34

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Publisher Description

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:

  • “Knights of the Open Palm” by Carroll John Daly; read by Erik Bergmann
  • the “Rainbow Diamonds” series of stories (“Diamonds of Dread,” “The Man in White,” “The Blind Chinese,” “Red Dawn,” “Blue Glass,” and “Diamonds of Death”) by Ramon Decolta; read by Johnny Heller
  • “The Ring on the Hand of Death” by William Rollins Jr.; read by Dan Bittner
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    About Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a two-time Edgar Award–winner and the recipient of the Ellery Queen Award. A New York Times bestselling editor of numerous anthologies, his work includes Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He lives in New York City.

    About the Narrators

    Erik Bergmann is a winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. He is the narrator of the Area 51 and Justice League audiobook series, as well as the voice of Fred on the companion audiobook for the Warner Bros. feature film Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. He has also dabbled in television, making appearances on Saturday Night Live and doing voice-over work for Random! Cartoons.

    Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.

    Dan Bittner is an actor and voice talent and winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audio narration. He has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.