Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1984
  • Latest Book:
    June 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Hoke Moseley Novel

1 - Miami Blues (Feb-1984)
2 - New Hope for the Dead (Dec-1985)
3 - Sideswipe (Feb-1987)
4 - The Way We Die Now (Mar-1988)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Miami Blues

    A Hoke Moseley Novel - 1

    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. T...

  • New Hope for the Dead

    A Hoke Moseley Novel - 2

    Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with ...

  • Sideswipe

    A Hoke Moseley Novel - 3

    Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the ma...

  • The Way We Die Now

    A Hoke Moseley Novel - 4

    When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Ho...

  • Something About a Soldier

    Willeford joined the Army when he was 16, in the depth of the Depression, and was assigned to the Air Corps. He spent most of his three-year hitch in Manila, ``a place where interesting things can happen to a man.'' This memoir by the author of Miami...

  • Kiss Your Ass Good-Bye

  • Understudy for Death

    Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME.AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL.Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pis...

  • The Black Mass of Brother Springer

    "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final off...

  • The Woman Chaser

    In post-World War II Los Angeles, a disillusioned used car salesman seeks revenge after his attempt to make the great American film fails miserably.Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, has a pimp’s awareness of the ways women (and me...



  • Pick-Up

    This underground classic of hard-boiled noir fiction follows two addiction-addled drifters as they struggle to make ends meet in the streets of 1950s California First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic undergr...

  • Cockfighter

    In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top.A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for hi...

  • The Shark-Infested Custard

    From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private s...

  • High Priest of California

    High Priest of California, first published in 1953, is a gritty noir thriller by Charles Willeford. The book, Willeford’s first novel, centers on San Francisco used-car salesman Russell Haxby, a highly unpleasant character, who, motivated perhaps b...

  • 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 ...

  • The Difference

    Set against the sweeping panorama of Arizona circa 1880, this work has many of the surface trappings of a standard western. However, from the first shocking realisation that the line between good and evil is being overstepped, the author then begins ...

  • The Burnt Orange Heresy

    A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series.Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything -- blac...

  • Made In Miami

    Art student Ralph Tone is working in Miami as a bellboy. He meets Hollywood hopeful Maria Duigan and falls head over heels for the ambitious beauty. As Ralph fuels his obsession by booze, pills, and lack of sleep, they both quickly become entangled w...

  • Deliver Me from Dallas!

  • The Second Half of the Double Feature

    In this new collection of short stories, vignettes and autobiographical sketches-many previously unpublished-Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of life in the 20th century. From a ...



  • Honey Gal

  • I Was Looking for a Street

    "I'm proud to say I knew the man who wrote this book," writes Elmore Leonard of cult crime writer Charles Willeford's moving memoir of his youth. "It is pure writing, never pretentious or forced, never melodramatic, but honest storytelling of the hig...

  • Wild Wive

  • Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

    A classic Miami crime story and thriller, from the writer acclaimed for his Hoke Moseley novels. A man's life is threatened when he discovers his new lover is married. The author's previous novels include Sideswipe and The Way We Die Now....

  • Writing & Other Blood Sports

    Charles Willeford was a man of letters in all senses of the word. Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and raconteur, his early paperback novels with their existential/immobilized heroes were the creations (to paraphrase Chandler) of a man n...

  • Lust is a Woman

    • / Mystery
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    She was a perfectly nice girl, this Maria Dugan-though possibly a little too attractive for her own good. Craving a vacation that would really furnish thrills and excitement, she decided to treat herself to a couple of weeks in...

  • The Machine in Ward Eleven

    • / Suspense
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    This reissue of Willeford's 1963 pulp classic is a timely reminder that madness is truly the dark heart of politics. Written at a time when people still had faith in their elected leaders, Willeford's book laid bare the American dream. There is an al...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford has published 26 books.

Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kiss Your Ass Goodbye, was published in June 2021.

The first book by Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford, Miami Blues, was published in February 1984.

Yes. Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford has 1 series.
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