Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara
And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
Black Mask: Book #6
- By: Otto Penzler
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim & David Ledoux
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
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.
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Black Mask Series

Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Eric Conger, Pete Larkin & Alan Sklar
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 2: Murder IS Bad Luck
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Pete Larkin & Alan Sklar
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Pete Larkin & Oliver Wyman
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Pete Larkin, Carol Monda & Alan Sklar
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Erik Bergmann, Dan Bittner & Johnny Heller
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim & David Ledoux
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 7: The Shrieking Skeleton
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim & David Ledoux
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 8: The Sound of the Shot
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim & David Ledoux
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Eric Conger, Carol Monda & Alan Winter
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 10: Death Stops Payment
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Eric Conger, Carol Monda & Jeff Woodman
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Eric Conger & Johnny Heller
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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