The Potboiler Podcast

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, part two.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some summer sun.  Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is on the trail of Werner Worthington III, the closest thing he’s ever known to an arch enemy, and a notorious crimeboss that has reportedly already been killed twice since the deployment of his dead or alive arrest warrant. Hollow took the path east as Dent Cranley rode west, each of them seeking the next leg of the only death warrant they ever truly agreed on.The episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, Part One.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.  Let’s do the intro.Over the path of Hollow Grim’s life, following his legendary lawman father around their small Nevada town, in his early days as a military marksman for hire, and in the dying days of the nineteenth century, an antagonist with influence conducts the instruments that make life hard for his innocent community over and over.The musician has a name: Werner Worthington III. Those who know him best call him Worm. He always stands far enough from the fray to avoid implication, but close enough to smile at his victims. No one is permitted to cal him Worm anymore. Nevada has been made to regret that ridicule.After decades of crime too organized to put a hook into, a warrant is finally issued for the only man Hollow Grim has truly wanted to see dead.  He knows he won’t be the only killer on his trail. He knows the line between his rifle and Worthington will be anything but a straight line.There’s no way this ends clean.The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves to shine.  Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim knows a confrontation with Sterling Stern is inevitable and necessary, to end the exploitation of his father’s legacy in law enforcement. As he prepares to leave for Chicago, the new telephone in the Progress Hotel begins to chime.  The former Tribune reporter and chronicler of his father’s exploits has the same thoughts about inevitability and tells him over the line that he intends to write the right ending for the story he believes is shared between the three of them.Riders have him surrounded. Their mission is clear. The downfall is upon them. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Downfall, part two.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.  Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim. His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern. They were the hero and his troubadour.Years after Charlie’s death, Hollow encounters the role that his father’s biographer played in crafting his legend, and how he continues to profit from it. He resolves that ending is going to have to be written not worthy of print. The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.Enjoy

Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents. His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim. His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern. They were the hero and his troubadour.As time passes and the story grows, tension grows between them as Charlie questions the value and veracity of celebrity. A young Hollow questions: is it the hero who makes the story or the story that makes the hero?The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready to face the bad guy.  Let’s do the intro.Todd needs Eric’s help. A disgruntled worker at an office building downtown has taken his coworkers hostage, and has a bomb set explode. Todd doesn’t have time to negotiate or space to rush the scene. He knows that Eric is his best and only chance.The encounter Eric enters will reset the trajectory of Eric’s public life. A door is going to be open for him that is awfully difficult to close.