| Parent company | Creative Arts Book Company |
|---|---|
| Status | Purchased in 1990; merged with Vintage Crime |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder | Barry Gifford |
| Successor | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Berkeley, California |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Mystery |
Black Lizard was an American book publisher.[1] A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in reprinting forgotten crime fiction and noir fiction writers and novels originally released between the 1930s and the 1960s, many of which are now acknowledged as classics of their genres.