Taking His Time
by Various Authors
read by Grover Gardner, Malcolm Hillgartner
Part of the Black Mask series
In this comic vignette, a carnival barker's valuable watch gets stolen during an illegal poker game. The local sheriff seems in no hurry to apprehend the thief, until a reward is offered.
Rough Justice
Black Mask Audio Magazine
by Frederick Nebel
read by Malcolm Hillgartner, Anthony Heald, Tom Weiner, Grover Gardner
Part of the Black Mask series
Mississippi heat-A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis, where he gets mixed up in a cop killing and nearly loses his own life at the hands of a "B" girl.
Too Many Have Lived
by Various Authors
read by Various Readers
Part of the Black Mask series
One of only three Sam Spade short stories, this one involves a blackmailing poet, a seductive chanteuse, her rough-hewn stage-door-johnny, and, of course, murder. Recorded before a live audience in New York.
Waiting for Rusty
by William Cole
read by Burt Ross
Part of the Black Mask series
This account of a fugitive gun moll masterfully compresses the essence of 'noir' fiction into three incredibly tense pages.
Black
Black Mask Audio Magazine
by Paul Cain
read by Various Readers
Part of the Black Mask series
Big city tough guy comes to a small Minnesota town to settle a deadly fight between the local crime boss and his chief rival -- his son.
The Missing Mr. Lee
by Various Authors
read by Anthony Heald, Lorna Raver, Christine Williams, Rochelle Savitt
Part of the Black Mask series
An eccentric boarding-house denizen winds up dead; his presumed killer, a fellow boarder, has vanished. The baffling case unfolds through the testimony of witnesses, who are themselves suspects.
Trouble Chaser
by Paul Cain
read by Anthony Heald, Christine Williams, William Hughes, Lorna Raver
Part of the Black Mask series
A starlet's plot to blackmail a film-studio executive results in her murder. Only the "trouble chaser" can clear her volatile lover and solve the crime.
Lost and Found
Black Mask Audio Magazine
by Hugh B. Cave
read by Richard Ferrone
Part of the Black Mask series
Did a spoiled rich girl die in a plane crash or is she hiding with her homicidal lover in the Florida Keys? Whose body is that in the wreckage? Who put it there?