02707cam a22003973u 4500 77893 UtSlPG 20260610134815.0 m cr n 260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Whitman, Vic (Victor Sargent), 1901-1981 Hot Music Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from the First September Number of Top-Notch magazine. Release date is 2026-02-09 Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) Hot Music by Vic Whitman is a pulp crime short story written in the late 1920s or early 1930s. It centers on a radio-era jewel heist investigation, blending dance-band glamour and police work as a broadcast cop hunts the thief behind two connected robberies. The story follows Officer Dave Cates, a police radio announcer at Station KYK, who longs for real detective work and a future with dancer Anabelle Talbot. When violinist Miriam Meusel reports her jewels stolen—suspiciously echoing an earlier theft from the wealthy Mrs. Van Goss—Cates weighs several suspects: suave bandleader Leo Archer, his ingratiating manager Gerald Terhune, and idle socialite Arthur Hughes. A small but telling clue—fresh rosin beneath Meusel’s violin—makes Cates suspect a musical thief, and he links both crimes to Archer’s need for “strong excitement” to spark his composing. Cates plants a rumor at the Charity Ball, then uses a brief on-air signal while Archer’s band premieres a new number, “Hot Music,” prompting Archer to bolt to his office safe—where police recover both victims’ jewels. Terhune and Meusel are revealed to be secretly married (explaining the extra key), Hughes is cleared, Archer is arrested, and Cates’s reward points him toward the bungalow life he dreams of sharing with Anabelle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929 Short stories Detective and mystery stories Jewelry theft -- Fiction Police -- Fiction Radio broadcasting -- Fiction Hutchison, D. C. (David Chapel), 1869-1954 Soto, Rafael M. de, 1904-1992 https://archive.org/details/top-notch-magazine-v-79-n-01-1929-09-01 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77893 118613 118613