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Charles Williams


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Charles Williams was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Novels
   Big City Girl (1951)
   Hill Girl (1951)
   River Girl (1951)
     aka The Catfish Tangle
   The Hot Spot (1953)
     aka Hell Hath No Fury
   Nothing in Her Way (1953)
   Go Home, Stranger (1954)
   A Touch Of Death (1954)
     aka Mix Yourself A Redhead
   Scorpion Reef (1955)
     aka Gulf Coast Girl
   The Big Bite (1956)
     aka Operator
   The Diamond Bikini (1956)
   The Concrete Flamingo (1958)
     aka All The Way
   Man On The Run (1958)
     aka Man in Motion
   Talk Of The Town (1958)
     aka Stain Of Suspicion
   The Sailcloth Shroud (1959)
   Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959)
   Aground (1961)
   Finally, Sunday! (1962)
     aka The Long Saturday Night
   Dead Calm (1963)
   The Wrong Venus (1966)
     aka Don't Just Stand There
   And The Deep Blue Sea (1971)
   Man on a Leash (1973)
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