The Shark-infested Custard (Canongate Crime Classics S.) - Softcover

Willeford, Charles

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9781841950266: The Shark-infested Custard (Canongate Crime Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 1841950262 ISBN 13: 9781841950266

Publisher: Canongate Crime, 2000

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Startlingly amoral and painfully funny, "The Shark-infested Custard" dissects the vacuous heart of early 1970s America, where having a good time and being one of the boys was always more important than mere life and death.

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"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford." -- Elmore Leonard

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.

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