Charles Willeford's picture
26 followers

Charles Willeford


(Charles Ray Willeford)
USA flag (1919 - 1988)

aka Will Charles, W Franklin Sanders

Charles Willeford was orphaned before he knew the difference, and spent the remainder of his childhood between boarding schools and his Grandmother's house. By the time he was fifteen, he was living as a hobo and riding the freight trains that crossed the Southern states. He joined the army and went to war, he was alarmed at the psychopaths and criminals that also joined and pointlessness of war. He remained in the army and started to write poetry. He wrote 18 novels, some under his pseudonym Will Charles, before he died in 1988.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Hoke Moseley
   1. Miami Blues (1984)
   2. New Hope for the Dead (1985)
   3. Sideswipe (1987)
   4. The Way We Die Now (1988)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
Novels
   High Priest of California (1953)
   Pick Up (1954)
   Wild Wives (1956)
   The Black Mass of Brother Springer (1958)
     aka Honey Gal
   Lust Is a Woman (1958)
     aka Made in Miami
   The Woman Chaser (1960)
   Deliver Me from Dallas (1961) (as by W Franklin Sanders)
     aka The Whip Hand
   Understudy for Death (1961)
     aka Understudy for Love
   Cockfighter (1962)
   No Experience Necessary (1962)
   The Hombre From Sonora (1971) (as by Will Charles)
     aka The Difference
   The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971)
   Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (1987)
   The Shark Infested Custard (1993)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumb
 
Collections
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumb
 
Novellas and Short Stories
   The Old Man at the Bridge (2009)
   Strange (2011)
   Sentences (2013)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors