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    Terri's Tales
    Terri's Tales
    Terri's Tales
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    Terri's Tales

    By Russell James

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    From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented here in bargain-price format. The first, A Piece of Cake, has been anthologised several times already, and tells of the night Terri waited at home for her current lover, the no-good Jeg, to return from his latest robbery. The job had gone wrong, and Jeg is not in a good mood. In the second story, No Debts Unpaid, Terri has moved on. Working as a hostess in a south London bar, she is pressured into picking up and duping a more likeable young criminal, Billy Nolan. Terri is a girl with a conscience – but it will be a violent night, and unhappy for some.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRussell James
    Release dateMar 15, 2012
    ISBN9781476459080
    Terri's Tales
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    Russell James

    Russell has been a published writer for some 25 years, is an ex-Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, and has written a dozen and a half novels in the crime and historical genres. He has also published various non-fiction works, including 4 illustrated biographical encyclopaedias: Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion work, Great British Fictional Villains, followed by the Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets, and its companion, the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models. His books include: IN A TOWN NEAR YOU (Prospero) THE CAPTAIN'S WARD (Prospero) AFTER SHE DROWNED (Prospero) STORIES I CAN'T TELL (with Maggie King) (Prospero) THE NEWLY DISCOVERED DIARIES OF DOCTOR KRISTAL (Prospero) EXIT 39 (Prospero) RAFAEL'S GOLD (Prospero) THE EXHIBITIONISTS (G-Press) POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS (Pen & Sword) POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS (Pen & Sword) GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS (Pen & Sword) GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES (Pen & Sword) THE MAUD ALLAN AFFAIR (Pen & Sword) MY BULLET SWEETLY SINGS (Prospero) REQUIEM FOR A DAUGHTER (Prospero) NO ONE GETS HURT (Do Not Press) PICK ANY TITLE (Do Not Press) THE ANNEX (Five Star Mysteries) PAINTING IN THE DARK (Do Not Press) OH NO, NOT MY BABY (Do Not Press) COUNT ME OUT (Serpent's Tail) SLAUGHTER MUSIC (Alison & Busby) PAYBACK (Gollancz) DAYLIGHT (Gollancz) UNDERGROUND (Gollancz)

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      Terri's Tales - Russell James

      Terri’s Tales

      2 stories by Russell James

      Published at Smashwords

      copyright Russell James 2012

      Full-length novels by this author include:

      Underground

      Daylight

      Payback

      Slaughter Music

      Count me Out

      Oh No, Not My Baby

      Painting in the Dark

      The Annex

      Pick Any Title

      No One Gets Hurt

      Requiem for a Daughter

      Smashwords Edition

      License Notes

      This ebook is for your own use only, and may not be given away or sold to other people. If you are reading this book but did not purchase it, be aware that you are infringing copyright. Please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s rights.

      Critics on Russell James:

      'The Godfather of British Noir,'

      - said Ian Rankin

      'The great unknown talent of British crime writing,'

      - said GQ magazine

      'Dangerous and fascinating . . . someone to watch,'

      - said Hardboiled magazine

      'For me, the best hard boiled writer in the world,'

      - said Ed Gorman

      'The best of Britain's darker crime writers,'

      - said The Times

      'He goes looking for trouble where more circumspect writers would back off,'

      - said The Times Saturday Review

      Foreword

      Crime writers are lucky. In Britain we have our own social club, the Crime Writers' Association, an organization with only two formal objectives – to promote the prestige and appreciation of crime writing, and to provide a forum for crime writers' professional and social events. Which means we have lunches, dinners, drinks parties and a series of convivial awards ceremonies, spread out across the country in drinking dens, restaurants and even the occasional author's living room.

      When my first thriller (Underground) was published, my editor at Gollancz suggested I join the Crime Writers' Association, an organisation open only to professional, published crime writers, and when my second book (Daylight) appeared I was contacted by the critic and writer, Mike Ripley, who had formed a splinter group of promising new names under the banner Fresh Blood. Mike had a plan.

      First we rookies had to meet. I was an out-of-towner, and the only London writers I'd met were those established professionals at the Groucho, so Mike fixed a date and told me to make contact with another – at the time unknown – crime writer, who would be standing beneath the clock at Victoria Station. (The spy film rendezvous wasn't necessary, but it added to the fun.) I duly met the seven foot tall Mark Timlin – unmistakeable, as not only was he loitering beneath the station clock but he was the only man in London I'd seen in public clutching my precious book – and we disappeared immediately to a basement wine bar. Two bottles later we'd sorted out most of London's crime scene.

      Mike Ripley – a man astonishingly well informed on crime writers and British watering holes – had arranged a dinner for the Fresh Blood authors in an Italian restaurant, a meal enlivened by Mark and Mike Dibden's coming to blows. Mike Ripley (astonishingly well informed etc.) had invited into his group a dozen likely names, one of whom is now dead (the greatly missed Derek Raymond), another of whom has disappeared, but all the others have gone on to varying levels of success. International stardom flickered briefly across the works of Mike Ripley, Mark Timlin, Denise Danks and Russell James, but lingered longer on Mike Phillips, Michael Dibden, Maxim Jakubowski

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