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In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here 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 this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

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. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

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What will you see when you look in the mirror? What if you could learn from mistakes without having to make them? Thousands of hours of frustration, battling procrastination, and searching endlessly for motivation helped shape the contents inside. This book is a cornucopia of experience and knowledge harvested through years of mental and emotional triumph, experience, and personal transformation.

This account of a fugitive gun moll masterfully compresses the essence of "noir" fiction.