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The Shark-Infested Custard

Charles Willeford

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 who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings--and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Dec 6th, 2005
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.28in - 0.60in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9781400032518
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Hard-BoiledNoirCrime

About the Author

Charles Willeford was a highly decorated (Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de Guerre) tank commander with the Third Army in World War II. He was also a professional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer, and painter. Willeford, the author of twenty novels, created the Miami detective series featuring Hoke Moseley, which includes Miami Blues, Sideswipe, The Way We Die Now, and New Hope for the Dead. He died in 1988.

Praise for this book

"Nobody writes like Charles Willeford. . . . He is an original--funny, weird and wonderful." --James Crumley

"If you are looking for a master's insight into the humid decadence of South Florida . . . nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford." --The New York Times Book Review

"Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law." --The Philadelphia Inquirer