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Black
- Author
- Paul Cain
- Narrator
- a full cast
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 May 2008
- Run Time
- 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous dames
In the 1930s and ’40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the “hard-boiled” private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
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Details
- Author
- Paul Cain
- Narrator
- a full cast
- Duration
- 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 May 2008
- ISBN
- 9781481535632
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous damesIn the 1930s and ’40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the “hard-boiled” private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
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