Charles Willeford
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Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Wi
Willeford in the 1980s
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Pick-Up (1955), Willeford's second published novel and the first to appear without being packaged with another author's work
Reprint edition of the first Hoke Moseley novel, Miami Blues (1984), Willeford's best known work
The Burnt Orange Heresy
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The Burnt Orange Heresy is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Giuseppe Capotondi and with a screenplay by Scott Smith. The film is based on the book of the same name by Charles Willeford and stars
Charles Willeford
…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. 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…
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