Wild Wives
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596542235 (1596542233)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Blackmask.com
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
I'm not sure why this was called Wild Wives. There's only a single "wild wife" in the book. Also a somewhat wild teenager. Whatever, this is pure pulp, so don't expect things to make too much sense. Jacob Blake is a P.I. Florence Weintraub comes to see him to get help in escaping, for a time, from h...
Wild Wives begins with a beautiful, young femme fatale walking into a private detective's office. Sound familiar? Yep, it's a well-used, ordinary convention in hard-boiled detective fiction. But writer Charles Willeford is anything but ordinary. As he did in the last Willeford book I read, Pick-up,...
Willeford's description of characters is unique and all his own which is just one reason I like to take a break with his books.This one is shorter than most books and I can't point to one person as the real 'bad guy' since every person has his (or her) flaws, deep flaws. One reviewer said 'deadpan'...
Charles Willeford originally published this under the title Until I am Dead and is often paired with [b:High Priest of California|13345117|High Priest of California|Charles Willeford|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519X31LRrnL._SL75_.jpg|16498866]. They bear similarities. In both cases does ...
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