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_aWhitman, Vic _q(Victor Sargent), _d1901-1981 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aHot Music |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aProduced from the First September Number of Top-Notch magazine. | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-09 | ||
| 508 | _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) | ||
| 520 | _aHot 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.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aJewelry theft -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aPolice -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aRadio broadcasting -- Fiction | ||
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_aHutchison, D. C. _q(David Chapel), _d1869-1954 |
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_aSoto, Rafael M. de, _d1904-1992 |
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| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/top-notch-magazine-v-79-n-01-1929-09-01 | |
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