Classic Crime Stories: Behind Black Mask Magazine

Jesse Chambers at The Birmingham Weekly wrote a good review of The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard).

This interesting and entertaining collection, edited by Otto Penzler, includes stories by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald and other classic crime writers.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.bhamweekly.com/birmingham/article-2067-behind-black-mask.html

You can also read about another collection of stories edited by Otto Penzler and read a profile of the publisher, editor and proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York, via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-saw-mommy-killing-santa-claus-and.html

Below are links to two of my earlier posts about other fiction collections edited by Otto Penzler:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2010/06/on-crime-thrillers-dead-mans-hand-crime.html

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-crime-thrillers-agents-of-treachery.html