The Second Half of the Double Feature

Charles Ray Willeford. Wit's End Publishing, $35.95 (332pp) ISBN 978-1-930997-30-1

The Second Half of the Double Feature, by hard-boiled writer Charles Willeford (1919-1988), collects 25 short stories, vignettes and autobiographical sketches, many previously unpublished. The cloth edition includes a section of Willeford's poems.

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