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Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, Sideswipe, the Way We Die Now
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard...
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suit...
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother ...
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A Novel
When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going ...
Fiction. A classic of hardboiled fiction, Charles Willeford's WILD WIVES is amoral, sexy, and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the e...
Re-launched with a very stylish new cover, this Willeford classic finds Hoke Moseley stuck in Miami and getting nowhere fast with his current caseload...
He was white. She was the color of real coffee, expensive, exotic coffee diluted with pure, thick, yellow cream. She was a goddess all right, a high p...
A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low payi...
The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almos...
This Ace-Double combines two of Willeford's classics of hard-boiled fiction into one volume. 'Hight Priest of California' recounts the story of Russel...
Richard Hudson, an inveterate woman-chaser and gifted used car salesman, finds that life is not all that it should be. Disgusted by his job in the car...
Two sets of lives collide in a spectacular supermarket robbery in this Miami-based crime novel built around an amoral killer...
High Priest of California, Pick-Up, Wild Wives
Charles Willeford was a child of the Depression era, one of thousands who drifted across the Dust Bowl of America riding the freight trains. That expe...
I Was Looking for a Street and Something about a Soldier
A True Life Novel