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  1. Cover
  2. Raves For the Work of Robert Silverberg!
  3. Some other Hard Case Crime Books you will Enjoy
  4. Title Page
  5. Introduction
  6. The Hot Beat
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The drunk wasn’t offended. “That’s right,” he agreed, his voice thick. “Like me. For me that would have been just fine. I’d have been a stand-in for her if the guy had asked me. All he had to do was come to me and say, I’m gonna kill somebody, bud, and you want it to be you or this girl here? And I’d have said kill me, I’m no use for anything, let the girl live. She’s still got time to pull herself outa the mud…”

Some other Hard Case Crime Books you will Enjoy

SOME OTHER HARD CASE CRIME BOOKS YOU WILL ENJOY :

LATER by Stephen King

BLOOD ON THE MINK by Robert Silverberg

THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. Cain

THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH by Ariel S. Winter

BRAINQUAKE by Samuel Fuller

EASY DEATH by Daniel Boyd

THIEVES FALL OUT by Gore Vidal

SO NUDE, SO DEAD by Ed McBain

THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES by Lawrence Block

QUARRY by Max Allan Collins

SOHO SINS by Richard Vine

THE KNIFE SLIPPED by Erle Stanley Gardner

SNATCH by Gregory Mcdonald

THE LAST STAND by Mickey Spillane

UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATH by Charles Willeford

CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL by Scott Von Doviak

SO MANY DOORS by Oakley Hall

A BLOODY BUSINESS by Dylan Struzan

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY by Joyce Carol Oates

BLOOD SUGAR by Daniel Kraus

ARE SNAKES NECESSARY? by Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman

KILLER, COME BACK TO ME by Ray Bradbury

FIVE DECEMBERS by James Kestrel

CALL ME A CAB by Donald E. Westlake

THE NEXT TIME I DIE by Jason Starr

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The
HOT BEAT

by Robert Silverberg

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Introduction

Introduction

I loved science fiction from the time I discovered Planet Comics, when I was seven years old, in the early months of World War II. I wanted to read all I could find about other worlds, voyages in time, strange alien beings. When I was a little older, and more interested in prose fiction than in comic books, I moved along to Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and then to such science-fiction magazines as Astounding Science Fiction and Amazing Stories, which had gaudy, even embarrassing names, but provided me with an abundant supply of the fiction I most enjoyed. And, of course, since I had manifested a knack for words ever since I was a small boy, I wanted to write science fiction myself.