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Nightbeat: Zero

出版	Independently Published, 2019-11
主題	Fiction / Crime
ISBN	10958508499781095850848
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W-zuywEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋'Nightbeat' is an adaptation of the 1950 radio drama of the same name. It relates the adventures of the fictional Chicago Star newspaper reporter Randy Stone. His 'beat' covers all of Chicago after the sun goes down. The stories range from tragic to comic. It is in the style of other 'Noir' (Noir is French for black) literature of the time. The settings can't help but be black. Almost all the stories happen in the darkness of night. Randy, on the other hand, is a detective with a heart. He is constantly being pulled apart by his two-sided approach to his job. "Here we go again. Aren't reporters supposed to show up after something has occurred and, well, report about it? No, not me, I always get there just before the man is flattened by a falling safe, and I am torn between saving him or letting him be flattened and getting a great story. Won't I ever learn?"The stories cover many more topics than who killed who that was the basis of numerous Noir detective yarns of the time. Such as, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe) by Raymond Chandler, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, I, the Jury (Mike Hammer) by Mickey Spillane.But, as Randy is quick to point out, he's no "hard boiled detective. I'm a reporter. I'm more... soft boiled."There are five novelettes in this first collection of stories. This reincarnation of 'Nightbeat' first took flight as staged readings complete with music and sound effects. The scripts for those presentations will be published soon. An audio CD of one of those plays, Big John McMasters, is also available. Finally, the adaptations of these 'Nightbeat' stories are being written for a possible television series.- William J. Durkin - 'Zero' - The story begins modestly enough with a zero on a typewriter. That's right cipher, naught, nothing, but to one man of Chicago's four million that zero meant death. Phillip Warren is given the wrong medical report and plans to kill himself because the report says that he has a fatal disease. I, and the receptionist that accidentally gave him the wrong report, try to track Mr. Warren down before his planned suicide at midnight.