Friday, December 18, 2015

The Shark-Infested Custard by Charles Willeford (Underwood-Miller Books 1993)

 


What is very sweet, bright yellow, and extremely dangerous?
 --old Miami riddle.
 
PART I
 
    Larry "FUZZ-O" Dolman
 
In Florida, the guilty party who spills everything to the State Attorney first gets immunity...
 
CHAPTER ONE
 
It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny any more because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.

1 comment:

Imposs1904 said...

From Willeford's wiki page:

"The novel deemed "too depressing" to publish when offered around in the mid-seventies, in print at last. As an in-joke, the novel's four protagonists discuss Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop and its star, Warren Oates, in the first chapter. Oates collaborated with Hellman on the film adaptation of Cockfighter."