So of course I am happy to have two more Charles Willeford books to read.
The sad, though, is that this is it. After I read these two, I'll have read 20 Charles Willeford books, and the only six that remain
Understudy for Love (1961)
No Experience Necessary (1962)
A Guide for the Undehemorrhoided (1977)
Off the Wall (1980)
Everybody's Metamorphosis (1988)
Cockfighter Journal: The Story of a Shooting (1989)
are all way out of my price range . . . and according to WorldCat, the ones that are actually available in libraries (5 of them, surprisingly) are at least 300 miles from my doorstep.
So I guess this will be it. But it's been a good ride, and I'd mos def encourage any and all to give Charles Willeford a try.
All in all, it's been a helluva return on my investment for being curious about the cover of an omnibus.
P.S. I was just looking through the stats on my blog entries and noticed that this one has lots of hits...like in my Top Ten...which led me to read it, hoping not to find any typos. (I didn't.) It did occur to me, though, that it would be appropriate to note that since I wrote this, Understudy For Love was published (as Understudy For Death) by Hard Case Crime (a wonderful publisher, by the way; read as many of their books as you can put your hands on). So only 5 Willefords remain unread by me now. And I think it's going to stay that way. (See THIS for the why if you're interested.)
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