title: Backseat Tragedies: Hot Car Deaths
author:  RJ Parker 
description: <div><b>ALL Paperbacks under RJ Parker Publishing are in the KINDLE MATCHBOOK program: When you purchase any print book, you get the eBook for FREE</b></div><div></div> Because of the number of distractions that currently exist in the minds of people, a great number often forget things, but even for them, forgetting your own child... in a heated car... on a sweltering day, is a new low. No child should have to suffer the pain that is caused to them because of the inadequacy of their parents.
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  # THE RADIANT AVENGER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### by E. A. GROSSER
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
      
  
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  Future Fiction
  
  
  _, April 1941
  
  
  THE RADIANT AVENGER
  
  
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  by E. A. GROSSER
  
  
  **
  
  
  (Author of “Habits Via Radio,”
  
  
  “Blue Boy,” etc.)
  
  
  —————————————
  
  
  Gilbert Archer knew he wasn't breathing. He clasped his wrist and
  
  
  felt his pulse; there was none. He should be dead, yet he had never
  
  
  felt more alive, and his body glowed with an uncanny radiance!
  
  
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  GILBERT ARCHER smiled and edged the car to the side of University
  
  
  Road when another car demanded raucously the right to pass.
  
  
  “All right, Gil; laugh if you want to,” growled Pug Wilson, sliding
  
  
  down in his seat. “But I'm telling you, you got Carmody over the barrel
  
  
  with that evidence, sure. If you think he'll stay there without a
  
  
  fight, you're crazy. Carry a gun, at least!”
  
  
  The two men were in direct c