About this item
Highlights
- First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction.
- Author(s): Jeff Vorzimmer
- 392 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
Description
About the Book
Thirty-nine stories from the pages of Manhunt magazine, the definitive crime magazine of the 1950s, edited by Jeff Vorzimmer with a new Foreword by Lawrence Block and Afterword by Barry N. Malzberg.Book Synopsis
First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction. By April of 1956 it was being billed as the "World's Best-Selling Crime-Fiction Magazine." On its pages, over its 14-year run, appeared a veritable Who's Who of the world's greatest mystery writers including: Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane, Richard Deming, Jonathan Craig, Hal Ellson, Robert Turner, Jack Ritchie, Frank Kane, Craig Rice, Fletcher Flora, Talmage Powell, Richard S. Prather, David Alexander, Harold Q. Masur, Gil Brewer, Helen Nielsen, Erskine Caldwell, Henry Slesar, David Goodis, Lawrence Block, John D. MacDonald, Clark Howard, Fredric Brown, Donald E. Westlake, Harlan Ellison, Harry Whittington and Steve Frazee.
The Best of Manhunt includes 39 of the original stories, a Foreword by Lawrence Block and Afterword by Barry N. Malzberg, as well as an introduction to the tortured history of the magazine by editor, Jeff Vorzimmer.
Review Quotes
"One of the best hardboiled crime magazines ran through to 1967 and was a digest magazine: Manhunt."--Mike Ashley, "Collecting Crime"
"Some of the best hardboiled crime fiction of the 1950s."--Mike Ashley, "Collecting Crime"
"In its day (1953-1967), Manhunt magazine was highly regarded by the crime-fiction community, and drew contributions from most of its era's best-remembered authors."--Rap Sheet
"I'd like to stick my neck out and suggest that issue-for-issue and pound-for-pound, Manhunt was the best and most consistent crime mag around."--Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective Web Site