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'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard Sergeant Hoke Moseley is struggling: his division chief is making ominous p...
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with a pocketful of stolen cr...
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard In an expensive Miami neighbourhood, Sergeant Hoke Mosely, Homicide Divisio...
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Die Protagonisten dieses Buches sind Antihelden: Abzocker, Verlierer, Serienmรถrder oder Auftragskiller. Das ist in der Welt der Crime- und Pulpfictio...
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of the author's childhood and ad...
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...
Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961. AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME. AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL. Why would...
Two titles together in one book- Wild Wives and High Priest of California! A seedy glimpse into 50s San Francisco by an unsung master of the lowdown, ...
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard By day, Richard Hudson, woman-chaser and used-car salesman, works his crook...
From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more t...
A Library of America eBook Classic
This underground classic of hard-boiled noir fiction follows two addiction-addled drifters as they struggle to make ends meet in the streets of 1950s ...
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard In a hot Florida summer, Sergeant Hoke Moseley's life is going to hell: his...
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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...
High Priest of California, first published in 1953, is a gritty noir thriller by Charles Willeford. The book, Willefordโs first novel, centers on Sa...
Art student Ralph Tone is working in Miami as a bellboy. He meets Hollywood hopeful Maria Duigan and falls head over heels for the ambitious beauty. A...
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...
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...
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low payi...
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
I was Looking for a Street: The personal reminiscence of Willeford as an orphaned boy without expectations, cast adrift in the american Southwest duri...
Now a Major Film
A fast-paced, twisty thriller about an art heist that spins out of control with murderous results... Now a major film starring Elizabeth Debicki, Clae...
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or n...
A True Life Novel