Wild Wives
Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she...
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Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants to escape, but his wife. Now Jake has two angry thugs and one jealous husba
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00C40A6HQ
Publisher: PlanetMonk Books
Pages no: 97
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 ...