Penzler, Otto (ed) - The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories / Пенцлер, Отто (ред) - Большая книга детективов из журнала Black Mask [2012, EPUB, ENG]

Come and Get It / Можете прийти и получить Erle Stanley Gardner Cry Silence Fredric Brown Arson Plus Peter Collinson Fall Guy George Harmon Coxe Doors in the Dark Frederick Nebel Luck Lester Dent The Maltese Falcon / Мальтийский сокол Dashiell Hammett Ten Carats of Lead Stewart Sterling Murder Is Bad Luck Wyatt Blassingame Her Dagger Before Me Talmadge Powell One Shot Charles G. Booth The Dancing Rats Richard Sale Bracelets Katherine Brocklebank Diamonds Mean Death Thomas Walsh Murder in the Ring Raoul Whitfield The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk Walter C. Brown Let the Dead Alone Merle Constiner Knights of the Open Palm / Рыцари открытой ладони Carroll John Daly Waiting for Rusty William Cole Rainbow Diamonds Ramon Decolta The Ring on the Hand of Death / Кольцо на руке смерти William Rollins Jr. Body Snatcher Theodore A. Tinsley Murder on the Gayway Dwight V. Babcock The Key Cleve F. Adams The Bloody Bokhara William Campbell Gault A Taste for Cognac Brett Halliday Sauce for the Gander / Соус для гусака Day Keene A Little Different W. T. Ballard The Shrieking Skeleton Charles M. Green Drop Dead Twice Hank Searls The Sound of the Shot Dale Clark Flaming Angel Frederick C. Davis Odds on Death / Убийственная ставка Don M. Mankiewicz Those Catrini Norvell Page Smoke in Your Eyes Hugh B. Cave Blood, Sweat and Biers Robert Reeves The Black Bottle Whitman Chambers The Corpse Didn't Kick Milton K. Ozaki Try the Girl / Найти девушку Raymond Chandler Don't You Cry for Me Norbert Davis T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond Ray Cummings Wait for Me Steve Fisher Ask Me Another / Спросите меня еще! Frank Gruber Dirty Work Horace McCoy Merely Murder Julius Long Murder in One Syllable John D. MacDonald Three Apes from the East H. H. Stinson Death Stops Payment D. L. Champion The Color of Honor / Цвет чести Richard Connell Middleman for Murder Bruno Fischer The Man Who Chose the Devil / Человек, выбравший дьявола Richard Deming Beer-Bottle Polka C. M. Kornbluth Borrowed Crime / Преступление взаймы Cornell Woolrich

Murder in One Syllable John D. MacDonald

Bullets for breakfast were on the menu for thrill-hungry Cynthia Darrold—when she picked up the right guy in the wrong tavern.

CHAPTER ONE PAUL JANUARY

IN CHILDHOOD THERE HAD BEEN A sentence, a trick sentence, to punctuate. That that is is that that is not is not that that is. “That that is, is.” The sodden handkerchief, growing crusty furthest from the wound, was an actuality. It was wedged under his belt, just above the watch pocket of his gunmetal gabardine slacks. Nor could the existence of a small bit of lead be denied, though its presence within him was more the result of circumstantial reasoning. There was a hole for entrance, yet no discernable hole of exit. Though conscious of the absurdity of his reasoning, he tried to tell himself that the handkerchief was where it belonged, crisp and fresh, in the left-hand pocket of his rayon cord jacket. Not tucked under his belt at all. And that, of course, meant corollary reasoning. The bullet was still in the gun. Possibly the gun was still in a pawnshop. It had looked to be that sort of a gun. And it also meant that the girl was somewhere other than on her back in the cerise and white kitchen where he had left her, with a bullet in her head. ...