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Freddy Frenger, fresh out of San Quentin, flies into Miami airport with a pocketful of stolen credit cards and disappears leaving behind the corpse of a Hare Krishna. Soon, homicide detective Hoke Moseley is pursuing the chameleonesque Frenger and his airhead hooker girlfriend through the smart hotels, Cyban ghettoes and seedy suburban malls of Miami in a deadly game of hide and seek.
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"If you are looking for a master's insight into the humid decandence of South Florida and its polyglot tribes, nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Harrowing and surprising."
--Publishers Weekly
"The best book on the mystery racks these days [is] Charles Willeford's Miami Blues."
--The Village Voice
From the Inside Flap
Beware of the cop. He bites.
Hoke Moseley never saw him coming: the person who crashed into his squalid little hidey-hole in the Eldorado Hotel. When his assailant was was done, Hoke's pride and joy, his dentures, were gone. So were his gun and his badge.
Recovering from the brutal beating, Hoke tried to figure out who had administered it. The one place he didn't look was at a pair of ill-suited lovers: an ex-con from California and a simpleminded whore was was studying business management at Miami-Dade college.
What the two had in common was a demented interest in haiku, a Hare Krishna who died of a broken finger at a Miami airport, and the acquaintance of a cop without any teeth: the very cop who, as soon as he remembers, will hunt them down. All the way down.
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- PublisherNo Exit Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 184243165X
- ISBN 13 9781842431658
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages213
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Miami Blues
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Binding solid. Pages unmarked but somewhat tanned. Cover has only minor wear to edges, and otherwise okay. ; 129 X 16 X 198 millimeters; 213 pages. Seller Inventory # 34053
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Miami Blues
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 213 Pages, clean book with very slight spine cock. Freddy 'Junior' Frenger, psycho fresh out of San Quentin flies into Miami airport with a pocketful of stolen credit cards and disappears leaving behind the corpse of a Hare Krishna. (375). Seller Inventory # 023963
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Miami Blues
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Oldcastle Books, Limited, 2005
ISBN 10: 184243165X
ISBN 13: 9781842431658
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Miami Blues
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ISBN 10: 184243165X
ISBN 13: 9781842431658
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Seller: Call Phil Now - Books, West Roxbury, MA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. ## FINE book is clean and tight. Paperback. To celebrate 18 years publishing crime and noir fiction No Exit Press re-issued this book as one of only 18 classic titles in special numbered and limited editions. Spine lightly creased. Covers flat. Square. Cover price: £6.99. No marks in or on book. NOT A REMAINDER. 213 pages. When Elmore Leonard said that "No one writes a better crime novel that Charles Willeford" he was not engaging in hyperbole. Appears gently used, like new. For Hoke Moseley fans. Fine. Seller Inventory # 003391
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