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11 November 2013
For our 300th issue we asked our favourite writers to create an original noir story. The catch? It had to be exactly 300 words long. Strap yourself in for a blood-soaked celebration of bitesize hardboiled fiction
Three hundred by Anthony Horowitz
Frank was a bad man by Denise Mina
The bullet had eyes by George Pelecanos
Twitter stalker by Chris Brookmyre
Black beauty by Stuart Neville
Out of the darkness by Arne Dahl
Like a bad dream by Mark Billingham
Running on bloody floors by Malcolm Mackay
Black sheep by David Whitehouse
A dream of winter by John Connolly
Reader entry
Donny OKeefe is innocent by Ben Banyard
(Illustrations: Edward Tuckwell)
