Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN
UNFORGIVABLE CRIME.AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL.Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up
her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young
children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and
the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive no-holds-barred
portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.On the 30th anniversary of the death of the
masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the father of Miami crime fiction Hard Case
Crime is proud to present Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel unavailable since its
original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford's rarest
titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars) Understudy for Death
still has the power to disturb half a century after its debut.
