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May's Group read for "Pulp Fiction." Harry Whittington was known as the "King of the Pulps," a prolific writer who wrote under as many as a dozen pen names. Here, Mike Ballard, a cop on the take, is called to clear a man on death row, although he says he doesn't give a damn. This surpasses the hardboiled genre and is a classic short noir, where the protagonist's own flaws are paramount to the plot. Sizzling heat.