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    The Shark-Infested Custard

    Charles Willeford

    Startlingly amoral and painfully funny, The Shark-infested Custard dissects the vacuous heart of early 1970s America, where having a good time and being one of the boys was always more…

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    The Second Half of the Double Feature

    Charles Willeford

    In this new collection of short stories, vignettes and autobiographical sketches-many previously unpublished-Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of…

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    Made in Miami

    Charles Willeford

    Originally published in 1957 as Lust is a woman .

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    The Burnt Orange Heresy

    Charles Willeford

    Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford expands his noir palette to include hues of Florida and tints of Surrealism when Figueras takes a job for an art collector…

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    Wild Wives

    Charles Willeford

    Two cult novellas from the 1950s which are among the earliest fiction by the author.

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    High Priest of California

    Charles Willeford

    Russell Haxby is a ruthless used car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. This is a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue and lust set in San…

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    The Way We Die Now

    Charles Willeford

    Life, as usual, is dishing out nothing but grief for Hoke Moseley. A killer he once put in prison has moved into the house across the street. His daughter has…

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    The Burnt Orange Heresy: NOW A MAJOR FILM

    Charles Willeford

    A fast-paced, hyper-tense thriller about an art heist that spins out of control with murderous results… Now a major film starring Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang, Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger

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    Miami Blues

    Charles Willeford

    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 suitcase and the corpse…

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    Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller

    Charles Willeford

    Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective…

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    New Hope for the Dead

    Charles Willeford

    Bucking for a promotion, Major Brownley has assigned Hoke Moseley and his pregnant partner a stack of old, unsolved murder cases. In the meantime, Hoke is trying to find a…

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    I Was Looking For a Street

    Charles Willeford

    This memoir is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, looking back without nostalgia or regret, and preserving in his clear and forceful prose the great…

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    Hoke Moseley Omnibus: Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, Sideswipe, The Way We Die Now

    Charles Willeford

    ‘No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford’ Elmore Leonard

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    Wild Wives

    Charles Willeford

    A hard-boiled detective classic, Charles Willeford's Wild Wives is amoral, sexy and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950's while on leave from the army…

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    Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford

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    Is comedy postmodern? In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon. This title challenges the status quo…

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    The Black Mass of Brother Springer

    Charles Willeford

    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 priestess of love…

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    Woman Chaser

    Charles Willeford,Charles, II, King of England

    Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, possesses a pimp’s understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an…

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