Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307490858
Size: 34.20 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2009-08-26
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Shark Infested Custard eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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 than one type of heat in Miami. Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings—and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.

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Book Detail:
Author: Katie Wales
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330314305
Size: 48.92 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Category: Wit and humor, Juvenile
Language: en
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Download PDF Shark Infested Custard eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683358015
Size: 77.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-03-03
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 4811
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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: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 080957246X
Size: 78.12 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 1551
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Download PDF Made In Miami eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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. As Ralph fuels his obsession by booze, pills, and lack of sleep, they both quickly become entangled with sleazy pornographer Donald McKay. Charles Willeford's MADE IN MIAMI was originally released to the unsuspecting masses in 1958 under the title LUST IS A WOMAN by a publisher incapable of spelling the author's name correctly on the cover. Written in white heat by "the unlikely father of Miami crime fiction" (Atlantic Monthly) to match the requirements of the market, the book remains a textbook example of lurid 1950s pulp fiction. It was also a springboard to the author's later masterpieces MIAMI BLUES and SIDESWIPE.

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Book Detail:
Author: Random House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099878520
Size: 42.12 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Category:
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Shark Infested Custard eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140388053
Size: 13.68 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1997-11
Category:
Language: en
View: 6389
Status: Available

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535722
Size: 25.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
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: Ed McBain
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1783293616
Size: 22.22 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-07-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF So Nude So Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. He’d been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man’s life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead... and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence and find a killer, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his growing craving for a fix...

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Book Detail:
Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307740722
Size: 43.59 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-01-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 7222
Status: Available

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Download PDF Blue City eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder—his father’s murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder—by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480443859
Size: 77.41 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-03-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 7157
Status: Available

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Download PDF Never Pick Up Hitch Hikers eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An English hitchhiker disrupts a criminal’s plans in this caper gone wrong from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. On the road to a new town and a new life, William Banks is grateful to Alf, the somewhat seedy stranger who gives him a lift. In return, the unworldly young man is more than happy to deliver a package for his benefactor to a specific address in Braybourne. He has no idea, however, that his driver has chosen him to serve as a patsy in a sinister plot to retrieve £250,000 stolen earlier from a Braybourne bank—and that, if the scheme succeeds, William Banks will be dead before sundown. But with the help of Calli, a lass William encounters along the way, and a dose of blind luck, he is able to avoid a most unpleasant end. Now he and Calli will somehow have to steer clear of London gangsters, as well as the original thief and his vengeful entourage, while further derailing Alf’s insidious plot without getting shot, stabbed, strangled, or blown to smithereens in the process. The Edgar, Agatha, and Gold Dagger Award–winning author delivers a funny, edgy stand-alone crime novel. “Charm is not usual in murder mysteries, but Ellis Peters’ stories are full of it.” —The Mail on Sunday

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Book Detail:
Author: Joe Gores
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 9780446562348
Size: 27.99 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2009-06-27
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF 32 Cadillacs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. This time the squadmust recover 32 cadillacs stolen from their largest client by Gypsies to be a casket for their dying king. The result is a fast, furious, funny, nonstop action tale with esoteric Gypsy lore and hard-edged investigation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409152514
Size: 67.13 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-09-10
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF I Was Looking For A Street eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of Charles Willeford's childhood and adolescence as, orphaned, he moved from railroad yard to hobo tent city to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles, and across the United States. The tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of apparently little promise but great spirit. Written late in Willeford's career, 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 American adventure of his youth.

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Book Detail:
Author: Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429983884
Size: 59.89 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-09-27
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Operation Napoleon eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Prepare for blockbuster action in the vein of Clive Cussler and Alistair Maclean A mesmerizing international thriller that sweeps from modern Iceland to Nazi Germany. In 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland durign a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm. He sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, only to disappear into the white vastness. Flash forward to the present. The U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of an airplane from an Icelandic glacier. A young Icelander, Elias, inadvertently stumbles upon the excavation and then promptly disappears. Before he vanishes, though, he manages to contact his sister, Kristin. She embarks on a thrilling and perilous adventure, determined to discover the truth of her brother's fate. Kristin must solve the riddle of Operation Napoleon, even if it means losing her own life. Arnaldur Indridason has proven himself to be a master of the mystery genre with his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlunder series, which has sold more than 6 million copies. Now, world-class writing and nonstop action meet in this spellbinding page-turner, which catapults Arnaldur Indridason to the top ranks of international thriller writers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1781167788
Size: 34.12 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-05-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 1487
Status: Available

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Download PDF Borderline eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER - the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment--and of lines that were never meant to be crossed.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jimmy Carr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627207
Size: 13.41 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2006-09-21
Category: Humor
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Only Joking eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Britain’s hottest young comedian presents a seriously funny, up-close look at joking matters—from the social origins of laughter, to the art and craft of humor, to why we can never remember the punch line—featuring over 300 jokes. As the host of the hit game show Distraction (now in its third season on Comedy Central) and one of the premier stand-up acts working today, award-winning comedian Jimmy Carr has won over millions of fans around the world with his trademark rapier wit, laced with "exquisitely economical and perfectly timed one-liners" (The Guardian). For this book he teams up with friend and fellow comedy writer Lucy Greeves to take an in-depth look at where humor comes from and how it works, through exploring its purest form: the joke. Only Joking begins with the mechanism of laughter—how it happens and why even infants do it—then delves into the power of the punch line, exploring the basics of all jokes, from the use of shock and surprise to advanced stand-up techniques such as the "pull-back/reveal." Carr and Greeves go on to explore taboo humor, jokes that bomb, and the psychology of finding something funny. They look into the long-standing connection between politics and humor, and discuss the survival prospects for contentious jokes in the current political climate. Throughout the book they conjure up a supporting cast of colorful joke enthusiasts, from Sigmund Freud to Lenny Bruce, and discuss their influence on the jokes we tell today. Surveying across national, ethnic, and gender divides, this rollicking analysis of why joking will always be close to the human heart is an irresistible exploration of humor that makes clear why we need a good laugh now more than ever.

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Book Detail:
Author: Iceberg Slim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936399199
Size: 28.22 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-05-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Mama Black Widow eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.

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Book Detail:
Author: Donald E Westlake
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN: 9049986544
Size: 30.56 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2011-10-25
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Behavior eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dortmunder agrees to do a dangerous favor for a gang of nuns It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of creature he can imagine: nuns. Although decades removed from his Catholic orphanage, Dortmunder still trembles before the sisters’ habits. But these nuns are kinder than the ones he grew up with. They bandage his wound, let him rest, and don’t call the cops—for a price. The father of the youngest member of their order, disgusted by their vow of silence, has kidnapped his daughter, locked her in a tightly guarded penthouse apartment, and is attempting to convince her to renounce her faith. The nuns ask Dortmunder to rescue the girl. It’s an impossible assignment—but one he cannot refuse.

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Book Detail:
Author: Elizabeth Hathorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780454000566
Size: 29.80 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1977
Category: English language
Language: en
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Download PDF What S Black Yellow And Dangerous eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Chris Whitaker
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486839087
Size: 55.29 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-03-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF Tall Oaks eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Winner of the U.K.'s Crime Writers' Association's New Blood Dagger Award! A small California community is shattered by the abduction of a three-year-old resident in this quirky novel, praised by The Guardian as "a pleasingly unusual mixture of a psychological thriller and screwball comedy."

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Book Detail:
Author: John Farris
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857687662
Size: 43.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-05-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 2324
Status: Available

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Download PDF Baby Moll eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. NO MAN ESCAPES THE SINS OF HIS PAST Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in. Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help – the kind of help only a man like Mallory can provide. But behind the walls of the fenced-in island compound he once called home, Mallory is about to find himself surrounded by beautiful women, by temptation, and by danger – and one wrong step could trigger a bloodbath…

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