The Wedding Gig

The Wedding Gig

Infobox short story |
name = The Wedding Gig
author = Stephen King
country = United States
language = English
genre = Mystery short story
published_in = "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" (1st release),
"Skeleton Crew"
publication_type = Magazine
publisher =
media_type = Print (Periodical & Paperback)
pub_date = 1980
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"The Wedding Gig" is a short story by Stephen King first published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" in 1980 and collected in the 1985 anthology "Skeleton Crew".

Plot summary

Told from the viewpoint of a bandleader during prohibition, the story centers around a small time racketeer, Mike Scollay, who hires the narrator's Jazz Band to play at the wedding of his 300 pound sister Maureen, and her 90 pound fiance. At the gig, Scollay's enemy, The Greek, forces a man to come to the wedding reception and insult Maureen in front of the guests. Shortly after, Mike is shot down in a hail of gunfire from The Greek's men.

Maureen takes over his business, making it into a large criminal empire, and getting revenge on the Greek, until she dies of a heart attack years later.


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