num_pages: 108
description: A classic of hard-boiled fiction, Wild Wives is amoral, sexy and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early '50s, Willeford details a drama of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his nemesis: the beautiful wife of a socially prominent San Francisco architect. Blake becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue and multiple murders in lifts exciting tale of lust and peril. Noir at its best "Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong, and this is truly an entertainment to relish".
language: English
title: Wild Wives: RE/Search Classics
titlecomplete: Wild Wives: RE/Search Classics
genres: 20th Century, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Pulp, Fiction
ratings_count: 588
publisher: V/Search