Spectator Competition: Hard times

For Competition 3466 you were invited to submit a short story with a topical theme written in the style of hardboiled crime fiction. A smallish entry bore all the hallmarks of the genre: dames, sharp repartee, staccato delivery, black humour and grandstanding similes laid on with a trowel. Topics included the Clacton by-election, Andy Burnham’s

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