{"product_id":"hot-beat","title":"Hot Beat","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHAD L.A.’S HOTTEST BANDLEADER\u003cbr\u003eBECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBefore 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMeet 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? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing 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…","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313106035070,"sku":"NW9781789099928","price":9.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781789099928.jpg?v=1778590988","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/hot-beat","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}