Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. That is, until she meets Harry, who buys her a coffee and takes her home with him. Harry wants to help, but before long Harry conceives the ultimate crime.
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Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. That is, until she meets Harry, who buys her a coffee and takes her home with him. Harry wants to help, but before long Harry conceives the ultimate crime.
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Seller's Description:
191 p. 1967 paperback edition from Softcover Library (B1060S). GOOD, some water-stained pages, and paper-lift to corner of back cover. Uncommon edition. We also have Grimhaven, an unpublished Hoke Moseley manuscript.
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Seller's Description:
Berkeley. 1987. Black Lizard Books. Black Lizard Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Remainder Mark on Bottom Edge. 0887390463. Originally published by Beacon Press in 1955. 164 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In Pick-Up, Charles Willeford has created a work of psychological suspense that is at once poignant, terrifying, and utterly authentic in its depcition of alcoholic desire and destruction. inventory #22606.
I rather enjoyed this one. The ending was interesting. It may have been a little shocking when it was first written. So try to keep the book in its proper time period, otherwise it's almost silly. I do like the clean, yet descriptive writing style, though.
chroma46
Apr 15, 2009
diamond in the rough
Charles Willeford knows how to weave an
interesting tale concerning two damaged
souls who are drawn to each other. Things
go from bad to worse.
If you believe that as soon as one door
closes another one opens up, this story
proves that to be untrue. So we see what
life has to offer and then we live with the
choices we make.
