A small part with a crooked Vice officer was my favorite.

Whatsapp, © 2018. 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. Einmal schlägt er ihr nach dem Sex vor, er könne ihre Ersparnisse mit mehr Gewinn investieren als sie auf ihrem Konto an Zinsen bekommt. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Published in 1984 and this is the second time I have read this book. Although detective Hoke Moseley is the ostensible protagonist, evil Freddy is much more interesting. Daraufhin gibt sich Frenger als Polizist aus, was seine weiteren Verbrechen erleichtert.
If you have seen the entertaining movie Miami Blues with Baldwin, don't feel like this movie will compromise the reading experience, because it won't. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2010, i picked up reference to this author in another novel. Colección 'Serie negra', numero coleccion(176). You can imagine the characters are from a Frank Miller/Sin City genre. Well, bon golly molly!


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Frederick J. Frenger Jr., ein gewalttätiger Psychopath, wird aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Much of the book follows a cop and a criminal as they go about their daily lives (although their daily lives consist of checking out crime scenes and robbing people blind, so it's not as boring as it sounds). Juli 2018 um 21:26 Uhr bearbeitet. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Charles retired from the army as a Master Sergeant. Something went wrong. This novel gives a slight indication of what Willeford intended to do with the vastly superior sequels of MIAMI BLUES. Instead he mugs three men and flies to his fate in Miami. (Note those dentures play an interesting role in the narrative.) Well, it is simply written and has an almost film noire kind of feel to it. Who wants the star of the novel to be living and dressing like a bum, have his teeth pulled and replaced with a set of dentures, get his ass kicked and pistol/shield stolen without even throwing a punch ? Primarily this is because the world of vice in 1980s Miami, with its humidity drenched violence, misogyny, and nudge-nudge-wink-wink racism, while authentic and crisply written, is not a place I'd like to visit, even in fiction. Miami blues ( Willeford, Charles) [1970004 - 14E] Novela inglesa Siglo XX RBA. Ex-con Freddy Junior Frenger lands in Miami with a pocketful of stolen credit cards and plans for a new life of crime, and disappears with a snatched suitcase, leaving the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. The book is off t. This was great. Here his accomplice - a seemingly stupid prostitute is described from his point of view. Eine ehemalige Kollegin findet unterdessen Frengers wahren Namen und die neue Adresse des Paares heraus. Here his accomplice - a seemingly stupid prostitute is described from his point of view. Miami Blues is the debut where we meet Hoke a man with an uncanny resemblance to Leisure Suit Larry. Short and not so sweet with a most unusual "hero", a cop living in a broken down flophouse style hotel, deeply in debt due to a divorce and unable to make much headway as the daughters need braces, and he needing to get his dentures replaced,etc. This edition has an introduction written by Elmore Leonard. Moseley landet im Krankenhaus und verliert seine Stelle. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Enttäuscht davon, dass er sein Versprechen gebrochen hat, lässt ihn seine Frau zurück. The story is interesting, if unusual. The novel was based on the original version of The Blues Brothers screenplay written by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis.However, the original script that was used for the basis of the novel evolved so dramatically into what was used in the film that the two works only scantly resemble each other. Frenger begeht erneut Verbrechen; unter anderem kauft er eine Wasserpistole, die wie eine Maschinenpistole aussieht, und raubt die Mitglieder einer Straßengang aus. It is strikingly different in tone and affect from Willeford's earlier pulp works so much so that you wonder how that could be. Charles Willeford was a `late developer' as a novelist. Willeford, Charles 1919-1988. Im Geschäft versucht er eine gestohlene Münzsammlung schätzen zu lassen, was jedoch eskaliert. Compartir Unable to add item to List. by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. Miami Blues is a 1990 American black comedy crime film directed by George Armitage, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. Librería Papelería Cervantes. I liked this enough that I might read the sequels. This novel gives a slight indication of what Willeford intended to do with the vastly superior sequels of MIAMI BLUES. NOVELA POLICÍACA Encuadernación: Libro electrónico País de publicación : España Idioma de publicación : Español Idioma original : Inglés. Not sure why the author needed to keep mentioning prices unless it was to tie it to the time period. Hoke Moseley Omnibus: Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, Sideswipe, the Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice when he hears a knock on the door.

Pinterest The story is intere. Freddy Frenger, Jr., un encantador psicópata de California, acaba de aterrizar en Miami con los bolsillos llenos de tarjetas de crédito robadas y ganas de armarla gorda. Willeford's first novel "High Priest of California" was published in 1953. Please try your request again later. 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. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an admirable dearth of sentimentality.

this thing is full of fake thumbs, to say nothing of fake teeth, Willeford creates a memorable psychopath in Frederick J. Frenger. Please try again. 2012. April 1990, der Film sei „ungewöhnlich unterhaltsam“ („uncommonly entertaining“), was er vor allem den „energiegeladenen“ Darstellungen von Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin und Jennifer Jason Leigh verdanke.[2]. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018.