Aging comedian Koo Davis is taken captive by a collective known as People’s Revolutionary Army. Their demands? Have the US Government release ten inmates and provide them with safe passage to Algeria. The alternative? Koo dies. I have a pile of Hard Case Crime novels sitting on my bookcase that I’ve yet to work my…
When noted junkie Billy-Billy Cantell arrives at the door of career criminal Clay alleging he’s being framed for murder, Clay begrudgingly agrees to take him in. After the police arrive and interview Clay on Billy-Billy’s whereabouts, Clay discovers Billy-Billy is nowhere to be found. Clay reaches out to his employer for direction and is told…
In Double Feature, we’re presented with back-to-back stories related to the movie industry. The first, “A Travesty”, follows film reviewer Calvin Thorpe, as he tries to cover up a murder by staying out of the path of a pair of detectives as well as a blackmailer. The second, “Ordo”, focuses on a man who discovers…
Business tycoon Richard Curtis, alongside engineer George Manville, develops a new and efficient process of demolition. Using a deserted island as a test subject, complications arise when a diver from a rival environmentalist organization attempting to stop the process is believed to be killed during the explosions. Her body eventually lands on Curtis’ boat, barely…
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