If You Can't Stand the Heat

✍ Scribed by Block, Lawrence

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 40 KB
• Series: Kit Tolliver 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In 2005, Johnny Temple of Akashic Books chose me to edit an anthology of
new dark stories set in Manhattan. Manhattan Noir was duly published
the following year. Besides soliciting and selecting stories, my duties
included writing both an overall introduction to the volume and an
original story of my own.

The story I wrote, set in the same
Hell's Kitchen neighborhood that's home to my detective hero, Matthew
Scudder, was "If You Can't Stand the Heat." (And in fact the bar where
the story begins bears a definite resemblance to Grogan's Open House,
where Matt's friend Mick Ballou holds court.)

I didn't know very
much about the young woman who stars in "If You Can't Stand the Heat,"
not even her name. I learned more as I found myself moved to record
further adventures for her. Her name kept changing, as did her base of
operations; her life style rather compelled her to be peripatetic, and
to change identities along the way

At one point it became evident
that I was writing a novel on the installment plan, and Hard Case Crime
published Getting Off in the fall of 2011. I've since realized that
several of its episodes, originally written as short stories, stand up
fine on their ownand have decided to make them available in that form.

If
You Can't Stand the Heat is the first of these. If you want to read
more about Kit, #2 is Rude Awakening, set in the Riverdale section of
the Bronx.

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