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"Beat to A Pulp 3" is a 2013 collection of stories in a variety of styles and genres ranging from noir and neo-noir to hardboiled to western by a group of authors, many of whom have already made a name for themselves in the modern writing world. There stories here are incredibly varied and take you to gangsters in the Far East ("One Ashore In Singapore"by Andrew Nette) to the backwoods of the upper Midwest ("Doe in the Headlights" by Patti Abbott), where a woman named Doe has an unusual and cons...
“’Just the luck of the draw, “Caleb would say, “sometimes you pull aces and sometimes two’s, and one times you pull an ace when what you really need is that two to make a straight.’” (Page 85, “The Blow Jobs” by Josh Stallings)That attitude towards life very well sums up the situation for all the characters in Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled 3. The characters in these nine pieces are folks that almost always have losing hands. Sometimes they know it from the get go and other times they figure it out
Beat to a Pulp have a load of these anthologies and they’re all good, as is this beast. All the stories have a punchline, with Chris F. Holm’s The Follow-Through my favourite of the bunch. The sorry protagonist lives with his dad in his head, the accusation that he never follows through with anything a constant bug around his conscience. When an attractive, but sad woman moves into a neighbouring apartment he follows through alright, and you’ll feel it.I’ve read Hilary Davidson’s Fair Warning be...
I always look forward to a BEAT TO THE PULP collection. David Cranmer and Elise Wright have put together a tough set of crime stories, most having previously appeared in David's online magazine and one more.A fine set of writers, only one new to me, but all guaranteed to give you stories worth the read.1: ONE ASHORE IN SINGAPORE - Andrew Nette2: DOE IN HEADLIGHTS - Patti Abbott3: GUNPOINT - Fred Blosser4: FAIR WARNING - Hilary Davidson5: THE FOLLOW-THROUGH - Chris F. Holm6: GRANNY PANTIES - Soph...
