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Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409160625
Size: 80.35 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015-06-18
Category: Detective and mystery stories
Language: en
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Download PDF Hoke Moseley Omnibus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Hoke Moseley is the star of the modern South Florida crime novel, birthed by Charles Willeford, whose forebear is John D. MacDonald and who, in his turn, has inspired Carl Hiaasen and Quentin Tarantino. Through Moseley we are witness to a Miami in transition, from lush retirement haven to capital of 1980s glamour, drugs and weird crime. Willeford's four Miami novels present a hero rather the worse for wear. Hoke sucks at life; in his mid-forties, with false teeth and an aching body, a bad divorce has left him with the cheap work and the care of two teenage daughters. His offbeat humour, brilliant writing and quirky sense of fashion have assured Charles Willeford a permanent place alongside the greats of modern crime fiction.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409160601
Size: 74.45 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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Language: en
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Download PDF Charles Willeford Omnibus 1 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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 experience, combined with twenty years spent in and out of the armed forces, and the most colourful of lives afterwards, fuelled his deeply authentic hard-boiled prose. High Priest of California is his first novel, and, like Pick-Up and Wild Wives, it is not pulp fiction, but almost satirises that genre. The humour is raunchy and bad-tempered, but the writing is never pretentious. The stories are not lurid; rather, skilfully crafted tales of men and women responding to their individual circumstances, at times purely for their own gain, at others driven by sheer force of hardship.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781874061397
Size: 16.48 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1995
Category: Alcoholics
Language: en
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Download PDF Charles Willeford Omnibus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of three stories by one of America's best crime writers. 'The Pope of psycho-pulp' - Time Out 'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' - Elmore Leonard

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780356197555
Size: 50.83 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1987
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF A Charles Willeford Omnibus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of three Charles Willeford thrillers. Cockfighter is set in the seamy underbelly of southern rural life in the USA; The Burnt Orange Heresy features an evil and complicated art-dealer; and Pick-Up tells the story of an alcoholic woman's attempts to avoid destroying herself.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409160618
Size: 54.32 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-05-21
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Charles Willeford Omnibus 2 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Charles Willeford's varied, colourful life informs his tongue-in-cheek attitude towards the violence, treachery and plain craziness evident in his four novels in this second omnibus. The Woman Chaser allows its hero, Richard Hudson, womaniser and used car salesman, to play skilfully on all the vulnerabilities of men and women . . . but not without a comeuppance. Cockfighter is the least likely pulp novel of these: it is a masterpiece, a portrait of silent, passionate masculinity set against the underbelly of the rural South of the early 1960s. The Burnt Orange Heresy is a long satire on art, art criticism and collecting, and reflects Willeford's favourite pastime. The Machine in Ward Eleven collects six stories that display the madness that lies at the heart of politics, as Willeford lays bare the American Dream.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307488217
Size: 45.74 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2009-08-19
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Miami Blues eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp. Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: No Exit Press
ISBN: 9781874061465
Size: 68.65 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1995-11
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Hoke Moseley Omnibus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307492974
Size: 46.23 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2009-09-09
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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 on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, and considering he has his former partner, who happens to be nursing a newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn't like the situation on bit. It doesn't help matters when he is suddenly assigned to work undercover, miles away, outside of his jurisdiction and without his badge, his gun, or his teeth. Soon, he is impersonating a drifter and tring to infiltrate a farm operation suspected of murdering migrant workers. But when he gets there for his job interview, the last thing he is offered is work. In this final installment of the highly acclaimed Hoke Moseley novels, Charles Willeford's brilliance and expertise show on every page. Equally funny, thrilling, and disturbing, The Way We Die Now is a triumphant finish to one of the most original detective series of all time.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535722
Size: 48.21 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-11-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Pick Up eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic underground classic, an explosive bulletin from the urban underbelly of mid-1950s America. It was Charles Willeford’s second novel, after a rough and wandering earlier life that had taken him from Depression-era hobo camps and soup kitchens to wartime battlefields. The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters—a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence—trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best: Willeford’s preferred title for the book was Until I Am Dead. Its bleak vision of life beyond the edge is haunted by rape, racism, alcoholism, suicide, and inescapable poverty, yet shot through with a tenderness and compassion sustained against all odds in a society offering few breaks to its outcasts and misfits. Pick-Up’s many twists and violent turns culminate in an ending that continues to surprise, confirming it as what critic Woody Haut has called “a razor-sharp narrative that rips open the genre.”

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Book Detail:
Author: Hal Ellson
Publisher: Rudos and Rubes
ISBN:
Size: 68.29 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2008
Category: Gangs
Language: en
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Download PDF Raw Rumbles eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Juvenile delinquent fiction is today largely the domain of collectors and scholars of pop culture, but Hal Ellson was, in his day, a phenomenally successful writer. While contemporaries like David Goodis and Jim Thompson have been the subjects of glowing critical reassessments, Ellson has languished in obscurity, mostly due to the (admittedly) salacious nature of his work. More often than not, readers feverishly turned the pages for Ellson's vivid descriptions of drugs, gangs, crime, rumbles, hot rods, and hot lovin' -- his potent insight into the lives of urban youth often went unnoticed. This long-overdue anthology contains three of Ellson's most famous novels: Duke, Tomboy, and The Knife. Read today, the novels capture the reader's attention with their willingness to explore the mental conditions of gang members and the environmental conditions that cause gangs to flourish while eschewing the easy answers and grossly simplified sociology of preachy message novels.

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Book Detail:
Author: Les Standiford
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1936070383
Size: 23.47 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2007-11-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Miami Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “For such a sun-stoked place, Miami sure is shady . . . this batch of dirty deep South Florida fiction might just send you packing . . . your own heat.” —SunPost Don’t let the fabulous weather, the beach bodies, and the high-end boutiques fool you. There is a darkness to Miami that can hit just as hard as a hurricane. If by day, the streets are lined with tourists, at night the gangsters, drug dealers, and desperate come out to play. It’s this Miami that has captured the imagination of some of the city’s best writers. Miami Noir includes stories by James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr. “For different reasons these stories cultivate a little something special, a radiance, a humanity, even a grace, In the midst of the noir gloom, and thereby set themselves apart. Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a story make Miami Noir a collection to savor.” —The Miami Herald “Murder is nothing new in Miami—or any other big city, for that matter. But seldom has it been so entertaining as it is in the 16 short stories included in Miami Noir.” —Palm Beach Daily News “This well-chosen short story collection isn’t just a thoughtful compilation of work by some of South Florida’s best and upcoming writers. Each Miami Noir story also is a window on a different part of Miami-Dade and its melting pot of cultures.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307493229
Size: 47.20 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2009-09-09
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Wild Wives eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants to escape, but his wife. Now Jake has two angry thugs and one jealous husband on his case. As Jake becomes more deeply involved with this glamorous and possibly crazy woman, he becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue—and multiple murders. Brilliant, sardonic, and full of surprises, Wild Wives is one wild ride.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683358015
Size: 56.91 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-03-03
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Burnt Orange Heresy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living—and most reclusive—artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff? Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy—the 1970s crime classic now back in print—has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con. Now a major motion picture starring Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger Praise for The Burnt Orange Heresy “Stunning . . . A novel full of genuine fun that also manages to make a level statement about the art world and its hermetic credulities.” —New Yorker

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Book Detail:
Author: Brian Ritt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933586618
Size: 29.74 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Paperback Confidential eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works; also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Blackmask.com
ISBN: 9781596544512
Size: 73.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2007-03
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Honey Gal eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Willeford's amazing novel of the Right Reverend Deuteronomy Springer, a white novelist who finds himself ministering to a black congregation in Florida.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel Woodrell
Publisher: No Exit Press
ISBN: 9781842431665
Size: 56.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2005
Category: Detective and mystery stories
Language: en
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Download PDF Muscle For The Wing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When Emil Jadick barges into town with a crew of ex-con wingmen and a red-hot lady ready to help him break the place wide open, it seems that nothing can stand in his way. Nothing, that is, except a cop who plays the game in the same way that Jadick does - with no rules and no pity.

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Book Detail:
Author: J. B. Turner
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503232839
Size: 62.82 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-11-21
Category: Criminal investigation
Language: en
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Download PDF Miami Requiem eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killling Senator Jack O'Neill's only son. There is no question of his guilt. Craig murdered the young man who was acquitted of raping his granddaughter. There are only five weeks and one day until his execution. And Craig has not given a single interview. Deborah Jones has assembled a whole dossier on the case, including court transcripts and every newspaper clipping. She wants to know what prompted Craig to exact revenge. And she has her own, very personal reasons for wishing to uncover the truth. Managing Editor of the Herald Sam Goldberg is well aware that Senator O'Neill has powerful friends. The two men have crossed swords on a number of occasions. But against his better judgement, he decides to give Deborah a chance to prove herself. Only with one warning - 'Be careful. Florida may be the Sunshine State to most people. But it's not. It's a swamp. Don't ever forget that.'

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Book Detail:
Author: Mickey Spillane
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451492730
Size: 76.79 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2018-03-06
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Mike Hammer Collection Volume Iv eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For old fans and newcomers alike, an ebook-exclusive collection of four classic Mike Hammer novels from bestselling crime fiction icon Mickey Spillane A killer preying on desperate women, setting Mike Hammer on a journey through the highs and lows of New York City society to find the truth. A nefarious underground network bent on destroying America. An ex-mobster, brutally murdered in Mike's office. And the promise of $89 billion, but only if he can evade the Mafia long enough to get it. Mike Hammer is a no-holds-barred detective featured in more than two dozen novels and short stories, as well as a number of films, TV series, comics, and radio series. This collection includes The Body Lovers, Survival...Zero!, The Killing Man, and Black Alley; reissued in a convenient digital omnibus to celebrate Spillane's 100th birthday with an introduction from Max Allan Collins.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hal Ellson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 62.71 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1974
Category: Juvenile delinquency
Language: en
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Download PDF Tomboy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1471914313
Size: 34.73 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-08-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Sideswipe eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. '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 ex-wife just remarried, his teenage daughters want to quit school and his beat partner is eight months pregnant - and living in his house. A break seems long overdue, so Hoke decides to bail out, give up police work and watch the ocean roll. But things don't always work out. A handsome, cowboy-hatted psychopath is planning another armed robbery - one that will draw a retiree into a life of crime and leave half-a-dozen bystanders dead. It's a case right up Hoke's alley: weird enough to catch his attention, personal enough to make him mad, and twisted enough to make Hoke forget he no longer wants to be a cop.

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