Miami Blues
by Willeford, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good-
- Seller
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Miami, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The book is clean and tight. The covers are black with gilded titles.
The jacket has very bright colors. It shows light shelfware, it has tape on the inside that does not show outside, some closed tears on the top and bottom edges. It has a removable mylar cover for protection.
"Career criminal "Junior" Frenger has just flown into Miami Airport on his stolen credit cards and vanished-leaving a corpse in the V.I.P. lounge. All of Miami, from beachfront hotels to ethnic slums, is now a network of hidey-holes for the psychopatic Frenger."
Synopsis
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp.Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grove Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GA00231019
- Title
- Miami Blues
- Author
- Willeford, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover on black boards with gilded titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- St, Martins Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 191
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MIAMI, CRIME
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About the Seller
Grove Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2007
Miami, Florida
About Grove Antiquarian
We buy and sell books, specializing in South Florida and the Caribbean.
We are always interested in purchasing important individual items or specific collections. We are a mail order business.
We are always interested in purchasing important individual items or specific collections. We are a mail order business.
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