Miami Blues - Charles Willeford • BookLikes (ISBN:0708827640)

Miami Blues

by: Charles Willeford (author)

ISBN: 9780708827642 (0708827640)

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, American, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Noir, Pulp, Americana

Series: Hoke Moseley (#1)

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bookaneer rated it

10 years ago

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Book Reaction (not a full review)I picked up Miami Blues because the author, Charles Willeford, is supposedly one of the core members of the hardboiled/noir canon. I'm not sure what I was expecting; Philip Marlowe in Miami, perhaps.In actuality, Miami Blues focuses mostly on the perspective of the a...

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MartynVHalm rated it

11 years ago

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I loved this book. The quirky characters, the weird situations, the interaction. Junior Frenger, a freeloading sociopath recently released from prison, arrives in Miami, where he uses his skills at deception and violence to twist situations into his advantage.Weary police detective Hoke Moseley inve...

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

12 years ago

http://antao.booklikes.com Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 4.0

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The massive coincidence at the beginning almost ruined the book for me. I demand not to be put out of the story... Fortunately what comes next more than makes up for the faltering beginning.Miami Blues is a wonderful novel: off-the-wall, fun, off-target with a clean, sublime prose style. Detective H...

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