Ep. 51 Florida Crime Double-Bill: Darker Than Amber/Miami Blues

In this episode, we take a look at a double-bill of classic Florida
pulp fiction: John D. MacDonald’s Darker Than Amber (the seventh
novel in his Travis McGee series) and Charles Willeford’s Miami
Blues (the first novel in his Hoke Moseley series). We’re joined by
director and "Mr. Miami" Bill Teck to discuss the novels, the sense
his Cuban heritage gives him of the the state’s history, the
changes in crime between the 1967 publication of Amber and Blues in
1984 as well as the nuances of Floridalia ranging from Miami Dade
Community College to Granny Feelgood’s to depressing top-sider bars
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Pinnland Empire.