Charles Willeford
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Birth Name: Charles Ray Willeford III
Born: 2 January 1919 Died: 27 March 1988
Country of origin: United States
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Mary Jo Norton
Charles Willeford was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, "Miami Blues" (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: "Cockfighter", "Miami Blues", "The Woman Chaser" and "The Burnt Orange Heresy".
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1. Miami Blues (1990)
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2. Cockfighter (2013)
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1. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / (1997)
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3. Wild Wives
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1. Hoke (2014)
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