Charles Willeford Omnibus: Pick-up, Cockfighter, The Burnt Orange Mystery

by Charles Willeford

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Three great novels from Willeford's hardcore early days, gathered together in a single volume.

PICK UP

Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of alcohol - until Harry conceives the ultimate crime...

THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY

Art critic James Figueras is a psychotic, an amoral unrepentant killer. Out to make a lasting name for himself, he seeks out the greatest painter in the world, now a hermit in the Florida swamplands. Figueras is after more than the man, however - he wants the work, and something more...something more horrible than can be imagined.

COCKFIGHTER

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 rural Southern life...into the hot dusty small-town circuits, where greed and corruption vie only with lust and violence...

  • ISBN10 1874061394
  • ISBN13 9781874061397
  • Publish Date 31 December 1995
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 October 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
  • Imprint No Exit Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 602
  • Language English
  • URL https://noexit.co.uk