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A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn''t commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over ...

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn''t commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.HAD L.A.’S HOTTEST BANDLEADERBECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH? Before his extraordinary career as a grandmaster of science fiction, Robert Silverberg honed his craft as a writer for a variety of pulp magazines, including crime digests with titles like Trapped and Guilty Detective Story Magazine. He also wrote this long-lost novel, which appeared under the pen name “Stan Vincent” in 1960 – and h