High Priest of California
'She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced.'
Russell Haxby is a ruthless used car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of Hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue and lust set in San Francisco in the early fifties. In High Priest of California every sentence masks innuendo, every detail hides a clue, and every used car sale is as outrageous as every seduction.
Wild Wives
'She wasn't wearing much beneath the skirt. In an instant it was all over. Fiercely and abruptly.'
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 1950's 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.
- ISBN13 9781842430033
- Publish Date 25 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 September 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Imprint No Exit Press
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL https://noexit.co.uk