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Chargement... Hot Water (Short Story)par Cornell Woolrich
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During the early days of Hollywood, the bodyguard for a starlet — she calls him Shad, even though that isn’t his name — follows Fay North down to Mexico because she wants to gamble at Aqua Caliente. Gambling is Fay’s only vice, but it’s a lulu. She’s pretty careless with her money, making Shad’s job of watching out for her no easy task.
Because this is a fast-moving whiz-bang, in no time at all the reader is immersed in a theft, a shootout, and an exciting chase through the Mexican desert. Paced like a Norvell Page story, the narrative has a pulpy runaway train feel to it. Plausibility is rarely worth considering in a pulpy whiz-bang, and even less so when the writer is Woolrich, but for those who enjoy a good old-fashioned pulp story, it’s an acceptable trade-off.
Woolrich gives the reader a delightful twist before the wrap up, and a conclusion with considerable charm. If you aren’t into pulp, and only know of this great writer because of the more heralded novels which came later, you might not enjoy this at all, but for those who have an affection for well-written early pulp stories, and the magazines that printed them, you can’t go wrong here. ( )