Deadbeat
Edition: First
Series: Deadbeat
Publisher: Humdrumming
Published: October 1, 2005
Place of publication: Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781905532025
Subjects: Adventure / thriller; Crime & mystery; Horror & ghost stories
Genres: Horror; Humour; Mystery
First sentence: There comes a time in everyone’s life when you become aware of a very real and urgent need to look at what you’ve become; that moment when you see yourself with agonising clarity and realise it might be time to make some changes.
Description: "I think you’re missing something, what did you notice about the woman in the coffin? …She was breathing. Not a common habit amongst the dead." -- 
It’s the middle of the night and, in a dark suburban churchyard, a group of men are loading a coffin into the back of a transit van.
But why would you be taking a full coffin away from a graveyard and, more importantly, why is the occupant still breathing?
The matter obviously needs thorough investigation by the best, most capable authorities.
Which is a pity as the only two witnesses are a pair of drunken ex-theatricals with reasons of their own to avoid the police.
Tom Harris (nightclub owner) and Max Jackson (habitual barfly) are on the case.
God help us…
Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger is the first in a series of adventures set the secret underbelly of contemporary London, a place where the dead walk, magic can be bought on street corners and anything is possible.
Frankly, it’s just like every other Pulp Crime/Horror/ Zombie/Comedy/Thriller you’ve ever read.
Notes: This edition replaced by ISBN: 978-1-905532-37-7

Short-listed by the esteemed British Fantasy Society for the ‘Best Novella Award (2005)’