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In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you'll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesman with golden dreams and rusted hopes, crooked lawyers and bent clients, one percenters hustling for that last half-percent, kind-hearted killers and the lonely hearted who tell themselves any lie as the double down for the long count.… (plus d'informations)
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“Fresh Meat” by Kathleen George for Criminal Element
Once I drafted a novel in which the main crime pages were devoted to petty financial crimes—check-kiting to be specific. No, no, said my editor. They’ve got to kill each other. I quickly learned that trouble might start with money, but blood was usually necessary. Many of the contributors to Scoundrels got that lesson. Blood doesn’t have to be scary. Murder doesn’t have to hurt. In fact the title of the collection is somewhat cheerful and so is the tone—in spite of the body count or maybe even because of it. Lots of people die, but most stories are a lark. They feature smart talk and the kind of witty alienation that marks characters in the tradition of Elmore Leonard.
The collection, fourteen stories altogether, is edited by Gary Phillips. The housing crisis and bust provide the fuel for a good many of them because the collection is supposed to be about financial crimes with a big C and in our recent memory are the many people who have been wiped out by big bankers. The first three housing/banking stories set the tone of the whole. “What The Creature Hath Built” uses a two-men-in a bar premise with the stranger who walks in and who has a secret (well, they all have secrets). The stranger is the narrating protagonist.
In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you'll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesman with golden dreams and rusted hopes, crooked lawyers and bent clients, one percenters hustling for that last half-percent, kind-hearted killers and the lonely hearted who tell themselves any lie as the double down for the long count.
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Once I drafted a novel in which the main crime pages were devoted to petty financial crimes—check-kiting to be specific. No, no, said my editor. They’ve got to kill each other. I quickly learned that trouble might start with money, but blood was usually necessary. Many of the contributors to Scoundrels got that lesson. Blood doesn’t have to be scary. Murder doesn’t have to hurt. In fact the title of the collection is somewhat cheerful and so is the tone—in spite of the body count or maybe even because of it. Lots of people die, but most stories are a lark. They feature smart talk and the kind of witty alienation that marks characters in the tradition of Elmore Leonard.
The collection, fourteen stories altogether, is edited by Gary Phillips. The housing crisis and bust provide the fuel for a good many of them because the collection is supposed to be about financial crimes with a big C and in our recent memory are the many people who have been wiped out by big bankers. The first three housing/banking stories set the tone of the whole. “What The Creature Hath Built” uses a two-men-in a bar premise with the stranger who walks in and who has a secret (well, they all have secrets). The stranger is the narrating protagonist.
Read more at: http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/03/fresh-meat-scoundrels-edited-by-gar...