Wild Wives
โ Scribed by Charles Willeford
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A sleazy story of deception and doom by the master of hard-boiled dialogue.
A
classic of Hard boiled fiction, Charles Willeford's Wild Wives is
amoral, sexy and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the
early 1950s while on leave from the army, Willeford creates a tale of
deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his
nemesis--a beautiful, insane young woman who is the wife of a socially
prominent San Francisco architect. Blake becomes entangled in a web of
deceit, intrigue and multiple murders in this exciting period tale.
Charles
Willeford was the author of several books of fiction, poetry and
essays. Hi Hoke Mosely detective novels are classic in the genre. Miami Blues, his best known novel, was made into a film. Charles Willeford died in 1988.
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