description: "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." Russell 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. First published 1953.
language: English
title: High Priest of California
titlecomplete: High Priest of California
genres: Pulp, Thriller, Noir, Collections, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, 20th Century, Crime, United States
ratings_count: 423
publisher: Blackmask.com