When his attempt to improve the betting odds on Sandspur, his fighting cock, backfire, Frank Mansfield must start all over again

Private detective Jake Blake is in over his head when he becomes involved with a wealthy and beautiful young woman out to escape her jealous husband's smothering influence, the two thugs hired to protect her, and a complex web of deceit, murder, betrayal, and murder. Reprint.

Miami homicide detective Holk Moseley is sent undercover to investigate rumors of slavery and murder at a migrant farm near Miami, while a murderer he once helped to convict decides to become his neighbor

Four swinging single men--ex-cop Larry Doleman, pilot Eddie Miller, salesman Don Luchessi, and drug company rep Hank Norman--find their lifestyles catching up with them when Hank's quest for a quick date lands him in the shark-infested dark side of a murder. Reprint.

Miami detective Hoke Moseley is impeded in his pursuit of a psychopathic killer by his superior, his two teenage daughters, and his Cuban partner

Product Description: 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...read more

a selection from CHAPTER 1: I slipped a dollar under the wicket and a sullen-lipped cashier asked me for a penny. "You're making the change,"I told her. She gave me the ticket and four pennies and I bounded up the stairs. The man on the door tried to mark my wrist with a blue stamp, but I dodged it. It was one of those dance halls where men come to pick up something, and women come to be picked up. I was there because I was bored. I looked around. There were twice as many women as men. Most of the women looked pretty bad, those that were sitting around waiting, but there were a few fairly nice ones on the floor. I edged through the crowd to the rope barrier and watched the dancers. The band (three saxes, a trumpet, piano and drums) was much too loud. The ceiling was low and there was a second listen to the music through reverberation. I looked for the bar and found it, but it only served beer. I ordered one at the bar, and then sat at a table facing the dance floor. The place was noisy, hot, smelled of sweat, and the beer wasn't cold. I was ready to leave. Then I saw the woman in the red tailored suit. It wasn't just a red suit, it was a created red suit. The woman lived up to it. She was a tall woman with shoulder- length brown hair, parted in the center. She looked as out-of-place in that smoky atmosphere as I would have looked in a Salinas lettuce-pickers camp. She had a casual air, but she was interested in what was going on. I got up from the table and tapped her on the shoulder. "Dance?" I jerked my head toward the floor. "Oh, yes!" she said, and nodded her head several times like she thought it was the best suggestion ever made. I took her elbow and guided her through the crowd to the floor. We began to dance. She was a terrible dancer, and as stiff and difficult to shove around as a reluctant St. Bernard. "Why don't you relax?" I asked her. "What?" She looked at me with big brown excited eyes, and there were bright red spots on her cheeks. "Relax." "I haven't danced in a long time and I'm afraid of making a mistake." "Don't be afraid. I made one." "I didn't notice it." "That's because you haven't danced in a long time. Come on. Let's get us a beer." All the tables were occupied in the bar section, but a couple of young punks were sitting at one with nothing in front of them. I gave them a hard look and they got up and left. "Sit down, Miss—?" "Alyce. Alyce Vitale."

In Pick-Up, Charles Willeford has created a work of psychological suspense that is at once poignant, terrifying, and utterly authentic in its depcition of alcoholic desire and destruction.

Retiring from the police force when his life becomes too stressful, former Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is drawn back into police work by a weird case involving a psychopathic armed robber and a curmudgeon retiree. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Miami homicide detective Hoke Mosely matches wits with a psychopathic killer, career criminal 'Junior' Frenger, an elusive and unpredictable crook capable of blending into any environment

Product Description: This collection features I Was Looking for a Street, Willeford's personal reminiscence of the Great Depression, riding the rails across America's southwest as a young hobo, and Something about a Soldier, a remarkable recreation of a young soldier's recollection of a peacetime era now far in the past...read more

Product Description: "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock...read more

In this book, Wood concentrates on how heat can be changed into work, producing electrical and mechanical energy. These absorbing projects will acquaint students with the potentials and limitations of heat when applied to metals, liquids, and air. The experiments demonstrate how heat creates wind currents, how heated air crushes a can, how the freezing point of water changes under pressure, how to make a heat motor, and much more. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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 life in the 20th century...read more

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Product Description: This collection features I Was Looking for a Street, Willeford's personal reminiscence of the Great Depression, riding the rails across America's southwest as a young hobo, and Something about a Soldier, a remarkable recreation of a young soldier's recollection of a peacetime era now far in the past...read more

Product Description: Book by Willeford, Charles (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career...read more

Product Description: Set against the sweeping panorama of Arizona circa 1880, this work has many of the surface trappings of a standard western. However, from the first shocking realisation that the line between good and evil is being overstepped, the author then begins to dismantle the American cowboy myth...read more

Product Description: a selection from CHAPTER 1: I slipped a dollar under the wicket and a sullen-lipped cashier asked me for a penny. "You're making the change,"I told her. She gave me the ticket and four pennies and I bounded up the stairs. The man on the door tried to mark my wrist with a blue stamp, but I dodged it...read more