Miami Blues - Tapa blanda

Losing his gun, his badge, and his dentures after a brutal beating by an unknown assailant, an indignant Hoke Moseley finally realizes who is responsible for the assault and determines to bring them down. Reprint.

Beware of the cop.  He bites.

Hoke Moseley never saw him coming: the person who crashed into his squalid little hidey-hole in the Eldorado Hotel.  When his assailant was was done, Hoke's pride and joy, his dentures, were gone.  So were his gun and his badge.

Recovering from the brutal beating, Hoke tried to figure out who had administered it. The one place he didn't look was at a pair of ill-suited lovers: an ex-con from California and a simpleminded whore was was studying business management at Miami-Dade college.

What the two had in common was a demented interest in haiku, a Hare Krishna who died of a broken finger at a Miami airport, and the acquaintance of a cop without any teeth: the very cop who, as soon as he remembers, will hunt them down.  All the way down.