Hoke Moseley Detective Miami Blues, Book 1, (Paperback)

from br77rino

This was made into a great movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alec Baldwin, and i think Robert Forster as Moseley. I've only read the first chapter so far, but I think this is gonna be good. A really good movie, with a good plot that is, is usually related to a really good book. And this was a r...

from datrappert

Perfect. Very few can write like Willeford could. He gets you into the heads of his characters and makes them real human beings, with that mix of good and bad all of us have. Fatalistic, sad, funny - just like life. Freddy Frenger is one of the great villains ever.

from wirkman

The first installment in the witty, worldly, sunny-noir Hoke Moseley series. Made into an equally successful movie.

from DaveWilde

I first read Miami Blues sometime in the eighties - before the 1990 movie - but rereading it now thirty years later, it's hard to read it without picturing the characters as portrayed in the movie. That there is the power of cinema. It's still an awesome book even rereading it and knowing full we...

from MrsLee

A man is released from prison in California, and decides to try his luck in Miami. All predictions are that he will not stay out of prison for long. A down on his luck policeman in Miami is about to get in his way. Miami Blues was not a bad book, but it isn't for me. Too much grit, a police proce...