Charles Williams
1909-1975
 

Charles Williams was born in San Angelo, Texas. He served in the US Merchant Marine for ten years before quitting to marry. He worked as an electronics inspector first for RCA in Galveston, Texas, and later at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Washington State through the end of World War II. He and his wife then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked for Mackay Radio company until the publication of his first novel, Hill Girl, in 1951. The novel was such a success that he became a full-time writer.

 

Titles and year of publication:  

 1) Hill Girl  1951
 2) River Girl (Also published as: The Catfish Tangle [1963])  1951
 3) Big City Girl  1951
 4) Hell Hath No Fury (Also published as: The Hot Spot [1965])  1953
 5) Nothing in Her Way  1953
 6) A Touch of Death (Also published as: Mix Yourself a Redhead [1965])  1954
 7) Go Home, Stranger  1954
 8) Scorpion Reef (Also published as: Gulf Coast Girl [1956])  1955
 9) The Diamond Bikini  1956
10) The Big Bite  1956
11) Girl Out Back (UK Title: Operator [1958])  1958
12) All the Way (UK Title: The Concrete Flamingo [1960])  1958
13) Man on the Run (UK Title: Man in Motion [1959])  1958
14) Talk of the Town (UK Title: Stain of Suspicion [1959])  1958
15) Uncle Sagamore and His Girls  1959
16) The Sailcloth Shroud  1960
17) Aground  1960
18) Nude on Thin Ice  1961
19) The Long Saturday (Also published as: Finally, Sunday! [1983]; and as: Confidentially Yours [1986])  1962
20) Dead Calm  1963
21) The Wrong Venus (UK Title: Don't Just Stand There [1967])  1966
22) And the Deep Blue Sea  1971
23) Man on a Leash  1973

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