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The Hot Beat

E-book


A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.

HAD L.A.'S HOTTEST BANDLEADER BECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH?

Before his extraordinary career as a grandmaster of science fiction, Robert Silverberg honed his craft as a writer for a variety of pulp magazines, including crime digests with titles like Trapped and Guilty Detective Story Magazine. He also wrote this long-lost novel, which appeared under the pen name "Stan Vincent" in 1960 - and has never been published since.

Meet Bob McKay: once a rising star in the toniest nightclubs of Los Angeles, now a down-and-out denizen of tawdry bars where B-girls hustle drinks and brawls break out nightly. When one hustler winds up strangled, McKay lands on Death Row. Can a starlet and a sympathetic newspaper columnist clear his name before his date with the death chamber?

Featuring a new introduction by the author and three bonus stories from Guilty and Trapped, THE HOT BEAT offers readers a trip through time back to the pulp era, when a future star was making his bones with stories of murder, betrayal, and dangerous desires...


Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • • 169 pages

Language:

English


  1. Black Cat Weekly #146

    Art Taylor, Billie Livingston, Wil A. Emerson, Robert Silverberg, Hal Charles, Stephen Marlowe, Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price, G.D.H. Cole, P.F. Costello

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  2. An Enemy of Peace

    Robert Silverberg

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  3. Black Cat Weekly #142

    Donna Andrews, Hal Charles, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Pierre Souvestre, Allain Marcel, Mack Reynolds, Henry Slesar, Robert Silverberg, Frank Herbert, Thea von Harbou

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  4. Black Cat Weekly #141

    Veronica Leigh, Aeryn Rudel, Vinnie Hansen, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Lester del Rey, Frank Kane, Hal Charles, Seabury Quinn, Gore Vidal

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  5. The Girl from Bodies, Inc.

    Randalll Garrett, Robert Silverberg

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  6. Black Cat Weekly #120

    Janice Law, Eve Fisher, Joseph Walker S., Hal Charles, Robert Silverberg, Ron Goulart, Alan J. Wahnefried, Evelyn E. Smith, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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  7. Black Cat Weekly #113

    Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Poul Anderson, M. E. Proctor, Avram Lavinsky, Skye Alexander, Hal Charles, Talmage Powell, Richard McKenna, Richard R. Smith

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  8. Black Cat Weekly #105

    Steve Liskow, Stephen D. Rogers, Adrian Cole, Hal Charles, Robert Silverberg, Joseph Payne Brennan, Frank Belknap Long, Lin Carter, John Gregory Betancourt, Henry T. Parry

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  9. Black Cat Weekly #80

    Phyllis Ann Karr, Hugh Lessig, Jim Thomsen, Robert Silverberg, Hal Charles, Robert F. Young, Murray Leinster, Nicholas Carter

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  10. Other Covenants

    Harry Turtledove, Robert Silverberg, Lavie Tidhar, Esther Alter, Gwynne Garfinkle, Elana Gomel, Rivqa Rafael, Jack Dann

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  11. The Hot Beat

    Robert Silverberg

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  12. Gorgon Planet

    Robert Silverberg

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