![]() ![]() ![]() Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for a scant eight issues, The New Black Mask featured some of the best fiction from contemporary hard-boiled practitioners as well as intriguing “rarities” from past masters. The resulting product reflected their expertise. (In 1975, he also commemorated the 75th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon’s publication with a speech about Hammett and his best-known novel at the Library of Congress.) Layman is the author of six books about Hammett-including Shadow Man, the best Hammett biography-and is editor of Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett. Scott Fitzgerald, but he has credentials nearly as strong in the field of detective fiction, having compiled Raymond Chandler: A Check List (1968) and a number of other bibliographical works on Chandler. Bruccoli is best known for his research on F. ![]() ![]() Bruccoli and Richard Layman, were up for the assignment. The editors of The New Black Mask, Matthew J. What fewer mystery readers may know is that Black Mask was revived for a brief period in the mid-1980s as a quarterly trade paperback called The New Black Mask ( NBM). Many fans of hard-boiled fiction are aware of the importance of Black Mask, the pulp magazine that flourished in the 1920s and ’30s and launched the careers of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner. ![]()
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