A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didnt commit in the longlost 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 BANDLEADERBECOME 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 longlost 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 downandout denizen of tawdry bars where Bgirls 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

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Titan Books IWUK; Classification: FF; Weight: 336 g; Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 20

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