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Grimhaven
''Grimhaven'' is the manuscript for an unpublished book by hard-boiled crime writer Charles Willeford (1919–1988). Originally intended as Willeford's sequel to ''Miami Blues'', the novel was deemed too dark for publication, and his agent refused to send it on to the publisher. The novel ''New Hope for the Dead'' was later written and published as the second book in the Hoke Moseley series. A photocopy of the hand-typed manuscript is maintained in the Charles Willeford Archive at the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The holdings inventory notes: "as per Betsy Willeford [widow of the author]: 'Ms. of the "black Hoke Mosely" , never published, sold to a small but ruthless group of collectors in the form of Xerox copies. May not be copied in the library by patrons who'll wholesale it on the Internet.'" Synopsis The novel begins with Hoke Moseley having retired from the Miami police force to work at his father Frank Moseley's hardware store in Riviera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Willeford
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective fiction, detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s, 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''. Early life Charles Ray Willeford III was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 2, 1919. Following the death of his father from tuberculosis in 1922, Willeford and his mother moved to the Los Angeles area. After his mother's death in 1927, also from TB, he lived with his grandmother Mattie Lowey on Figueroa Street near Exposition Park (Los Angeles), Expo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
