The Shark Infested Custard

Notes

Charles Willeford wrote The Shark Infested Custard in the 70s, but it was only published in the 90s after his death.  One reviewer described it as “immoral, unethical, but never unpleasant”.

A succession of misadventures drags four bachelor friends into a bleak, murky world of deadpan criminality.

Publisher’s Synopsis

From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience first hand that there’s more than one type of heat in Miami.

Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who’s studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who’s separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys.

They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings — and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.

Read a full review of The Shark Infested Custard by Charles Willeford at Swiftly Tilting Planet.