Miami blues / a novel by Charles Willeford ; with an introduction by Elmore Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willeford, Charles Ray, 1919-1988.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage crime/Black Lizard

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moseley, Hoke (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Moseley, Hoke (Fictitious character).

Police--Florida--Miami--Fiction.

Police.

Florida--Miami.

Miami (Fla.)--Fiction.

Miami (Fla.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"A Hoke Moseley novel"--Cover.

ISBN:

1400032466

9781400032464

OCLC:

56189897

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