Books like Miami blues by Charles Ray Willeford
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley retreats to the unassuming El Dorado Hotel, nursing brandy and weariness. The night he sits in his room, a knock at the door heralds a violent assault that leaves him badly bruised, his jaw wired shut, and his prized dentures stolen. Faced with a shattered identity and a series of baffling clues—ranging from a dimwitted hooker to an ex‑convicted boyfriend and the mysterious death of a Hare Krishna pimp—Moseley is forced to revisit a decade of unsolved cases in a desperate bid for revenge.
First publish date: 1984
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Charles Ray Willeford
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