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43 produkter
Hoke Moseley Omnibus
Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, Sideswipe, The Way We Die Now
Häftad, 2015
255 kr
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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 …
Shark-Infested Custard
E-bok, 2009
115 kr
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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 …
I Was Looking For a Street
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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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 …
Burnt Orange Heresy
NOW A MAJOR FILM
Häftad, 2020
131 kr
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A fast-paced, twisty 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'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard'Stunning' NEW YORKERArt critic …
The Burnt Orange Heresy: A Noir Thriller of Art, Deception, and Deadly Ambition
Häftad, 2020
276 kr
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Miami Blues
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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''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 credit cards and plans for a new life of crime, and disappears with a snatched suitcase, leaving the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide …
New Hope for the Dead
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard In an expensive Miami neighbourhood, Sergeant Hoke Mosely, Homicide Division, is called to investigate the lethal overdose of a young junkie. But what seems like a routine OD gives Moseley cause to doubt - particularly …
Sideswipe
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''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 …
Way We Die Now
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 plans for him, a man he sent to jail for murder has moved in across the street, and he''s stuck on one of his toughest cold cases yet. So the last …
High Priest of California
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic or hard-boiled fiction, Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue and lust set …
Pick-Up
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard In this riveting novel of psychological suspense, Charles Willeford charts a duel trajectory of alcoholic desire and destruction that is at once poignant, terrifying and utterly authentic. Prowling the grimy streets of San …
Wild Wives
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard Amoral, sexy and brutal, Wild Wives was written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950s while Willeford was on leave from the army. This tale of deception features crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his …
Woman Chaser
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard By day, Richard Hudson, woman-chaser and used-car salesman, works his crooked car lot with much success. By night, he returns home to a family of misfits. One day, seized by a feeling of terror and revulsion, he realises …
Cockfighter
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter, a man obsessed with an illegal sport which is unspeakably cruel, unthinkably bloody - and incredibly exciting. His pursuit of the champion''s medal takes him into the seamy underbelly of …
Burnt Orange Heresy
NOW A MAJOR FILM
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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A fast-paced, twisty 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 ''No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford'' Elmore Leonard ''Stunning'' NEW YORKER Art …
Machine in Ward Eleven
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''I had a hunch that madness was a predominant theme and normal condition for Americans living in the second half of this century'' Charles Willeford Willeford''s pulp classic features six incisive tales as fresh as the day they were first published in 1963. Writing at a time when we still had some …
I Was Looking For a Street
E-bok, 2014
40 kr
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''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 adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroad yard to hobo tent citiy, to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles and across the United …
Woman Chaser
Häftad, 2001
211 kr
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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 ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him. "No one writes a …
Pick-Up
E-bok, 2017
133 kr
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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 …
Miami Blues
Der erste Hoke-Moseley-Fall
E-bok, 2015
209 kr
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Frederick J. Frenger jun., gerade aus dem Knast entlassen, fliegt in Miami ein. Dort befördert er einen Hare Krishna ins Jenseits und lernt dessen Schwester Susan kennen, mit der er eine platonische Ehe der besonderen Art führt. Hoke Moseley vom Miami Police Department ist diese Beziehung und vor …
