"Love is Blue," by Lawrence Maddox, in in Tennis Noir, edited by John Shepphird, Level Best Books, 2026.
This is my friend Lawrence Maddox's third appearance in this column. It tells the woeful tale of Marvin Stang a film editor, who has a gambling problem. Well, as he sees it he has a problem with a bookie, but one thing leads to another, doesn't it?
He is trying to earn some quick money doing a vanity project for Angelika Blueler, an over-the-hill tennis great, who wants to make a video of her glory days. But Blue is not easy to get along with.
Two complications pile on: Los Angeles happens to be on fire and Blue wants Marvin's help in dealing with a blackmailer. Specifically she wants to get at the blackmailer's stash of filthy pictures which happen to be in the part of L.A. which happens to be, did I mention, on fire.
What could possibly go wrong?
You will have a lot of fun finding out.
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