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A young grifter steals an overcoat. As he discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket, the coat’s owners come after him. The action never stops as his pursuers seem to be both ahead and behind him at all times, killing and destroying everything in their wake to catch up with their money and the young thief. Happy Hour is as breathless as writing can be. Knighton’s debut novella is accompanied by a selection of short stories that can run with the best of American Noir literature. It’s cold out there, folks.
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About the Author:
Tony Knighton is a Lieutenant in the Philadelphia Fire Department, a twenty-nine year veteran. He has published short fiction in Static Movement Online and Dark Reveries. “The Scavengers” was previously published in the anthology Shocklines: Fresh Voices in Terror from Cemetery Dance Publications. “Sunrise” originally appeared in the anthology Equilibrium Overturned from Grey Matter Press.
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"The novella Happy Hour is a lot like its main character: it doesn't pause for breath and it doesn't take a moment to think things over. It just keeps moving as fast as it can."
- Crime Factory
"In this collection, Tony Knighton spells out one of the many reasons why I loathe the City of Brotherly Love...It is crawling with people who want you dead. Violently and painfully dead."
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
"I have just read the title novella and the first story in my fellow Philadelphian Tony Knighton's "Happy Hour and Other Philadelphia Cruelties." You should, too. The man knows how to cut to the chase."
- Peter Rozovsky, of Detectives Beyond Borders
"Tony Knighton enables the city of Philadelphia to almost become a character in its own right in many of the stories. It's dark presence adds a great sense of menace to a cast of already dangerous characters and really brings out the realism in this short story collection."
- Literary Flits
"HAPPY HOUR AND OTHER PHILADELPHIA CRUELTIES reads like a masterclass in American pulp-noir fiction, Knighton's imagination and storytelling ability adding strange and unexpected twists and turns to every single story in the book."
- Shotgun Logic
- Crime Factory
"In this collection, Tony Knighton spells out one of the many reasons why I loathe the City of Brotherly Love...It is crawling with people who want you dead. Violently and painfully dead."
- Ginger Nuts of Horror
"I have just read the title novella and the first story in my fellow Philadelphian Tony Knighton's "Happy Hour and Other Philadelphia Cruelties." You should, too. The man knows how to cut to the chase."
- Peter Rozovsky, of Detectives Beyond Borders
"Tony Knighton enables the city of Philadelphia to almost become a character in its own right in many of the stories. It's dark presence adds a great sense of menace to a cast of already dangerous characters and really brings out the realism in this short story collection."
- Literary Flits
"HAPPY HOUR AND OTHER PHILADELPHIA CRUELTIES reads like a masterclass in American pulp-noir fiction, Knighton's imagination and storytelling ability adding strange and unexpected twists and turns to every single story in the book."
- Shotgun Logic
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- PublisherCrime Wave Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 9881458420
- ISBN 13 9789881458421
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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Happy Hour - And Other Philadelphia Cruelties
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ISBN 13: 9789881458421
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