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Charles Williams

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born

August 13, 1909 in San Angelo, TX, The United States

died

April 07, 1975

gender

male

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Charles Williams was an American writer of hard-boiled 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, including Dead Calm and The Hot Spot.

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Books by Charles Williams

Average rating: 3.86 · 491 ratings · 80 reviews · 42 distinct works

	The Hot Spot 4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) 3.83 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1953 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Dead Calm 3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions	My rating:
	River Girl 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1951 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Diamond Bikini 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1956 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Sailcloth Shroud 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1960 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Aground 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1960 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Long Saturday Night 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1962 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Man on a Leash 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gulf Coast Girl 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1955 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Charles Williams

“The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.”
― Charles Williams

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“Let us have all the delights of which we are capable.”
― Charles Williams

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“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
― Charles Williams