{"product_id":"9781842430033","title":"Wild Wives\/High Priest of California","description":"\u003cp\u003eHigh Priest of California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell Haxby is a ruthless used car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of Hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue and lust set in San Francisco in the early fifties. In High Priest of California every sentence masks innuendo, every detail hides a clue, and every used car sale is as outrageous as every seduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild Wives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She wasn't wearing much beneath the skirt. In an instant it was all over. Fiercely and abruptly.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic of Hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford's Wild Wives is amoral, sexy and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950's while on leave from the army, Willeford creates a tale of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his nemesis-a beautiful, insane young woman who is the wife of a socially prominent San Francisco architect. Blake becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue and multiple murders in this exciting period tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Willeford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47972718837909,"sku":"9781842430033","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781842430033.png?v=1789020137","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781842430033","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}