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Lädt ... Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazinevon Otto Penzler (Herausgeber)
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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: "Ten Carats of Lead" by Stewart Sterling; read by Alan Sklar "Murder Is Bad Luck" by Wyatt Blassingame; read by Oliver Wyman "Her Dagger Before Me" by Talmadge Powell; read by Pete Larkin "One Shot" by Charles G. Booth; read by Alan Sklar "The Dancing Rats" by Richard Sale; read by Jeff Gurner Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The first two stories really did not resonate with me, largely, I think, due to the narrator, Bart Tinapp. He has what might be the perfect voice for narrating crime fiction: deep and gravelly. He could make a career in narrating profiles on missing children; he just has that kind of voice. While I do think his voice is perfect for the genre, to me, it was a bit too apt, if that makes any sense. Both stories came off feeling entirely stereotypical and I definitely felt the need to mock them as I listened. Also, his voices for women and southern accents irritated me endlessly. Speaking of accents, the one used for T. McGuirk in "T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond" grated on my ears incredibly harshly.
Some stories however proved much better, with the standouts for me having been "Wait for Me," the only story to be narrated by a woman, and "Ask Me Another," which centers around a man who claims to be the human encyclopedia. While several of the stories struck me as utterly predictable, others had surprising twist endings that were really quite clever.
As is to be expected with stories from the 1930s or thereabouts, there are occasionnal comments made about women or non-white individuals that made me distinctly uncomfortable. In one of the stories, though I cannot remember which, a girl gets murdered when a plot goes awry and the detective continually references her as a "poor fool." Had she been a man, I think he might have admired her daring scheme, but a woman is just a fool to aspire to that.
If you like old school crime fiction, track down these Black Mask anthologies, because I suspect they will bring you a lot of joy. While they're not perfect for me personally, I do think the collection was quite well done and will delight the target audience. ( )