Hot Music: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Hot Music is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Whitman, Vic (Victor Sargent) (1901–1981).
Catalogue synopsis
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Hot 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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Hot Music
- Author credits: Whitman, Vic (Victor Sargent) (1901–1981)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Detective and mystery stories
- Jewelry theft -- Fiction
- Police -- Fiction
- Radio broadcasting -- Fiction
- Short stories
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