After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would … would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp.
Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time.
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An oldie and a real goodie – it will make you forget there’s a foot of snow outside!
Hard boil crime set in Miami in the early 1980’s, which is when the book was published.
Detective Hoke Moseley lives in the swampy El Dorado Hotel. He investigates a murder that pits him against a violent ex-California convict. The convict is shacking up with the nicest and arguably most delightful and dimwitted woman on the East Coast of …
Hoke Moseley is old school, hard-boiled and hard-wired to distrust change but his Miami world of the late 80’s is changing fast.
‘It used to be a lot different when Hoke was still married. Four or five couples would get together for a barbecue and some beer. Then, after they ate, the women would all sit in the living room and talk about how …