First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledgedsuccessor 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 LawrenceBlock and Afterword by Barry N. Malzberg, as well as an introduction to the tortured history of the magazine by editor, Jeff Vorzimmer.

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Editor Jeff Vorzimmer was born in the UK and raised in the United States, but considers himself a New Yorker living in Texas. He has relentlessly pursued a life of adventure. He has bungee-jumped the highest jump in Europe, run with the bulls in Pamplona, swam in underground lakes and piranha-invested rivers of Brazil, was shot at by the Guardia Civil in Spain, been stabbed by a mugger in Brooklyn, driven the autobahn in Germany at over 120 miles an hour, climbed Mt. Blanc in the French Alps and traveled to 21 countries. He enjoys music, books and television from the late 1950s and early 60s. His musical interests include all genres, but particularly bossa nova. He started his career in Wall Street before working for the Austin American-Statesman for 21 years. He has two children who both hold passports from three countries.

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