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The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
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Description for The Last Good Kiss
Paperback. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 40. Weight in Grams: 268.
'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin 'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane 'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George Pelecanos Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret. ... Read more
'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin 'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane 'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George Pelecanos Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784161583
SKU
V9781784161583
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99-99
About James Crumley
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. He served three years in the US Army before teaching at University of Texas at El Paso, University of Montana and University of Arkansas. He passed away in 2008. His private eye novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C. W. ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Good Kiss
Crumley writes like an angel on speed
Time Out
The poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy, gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscape
Guardian
Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny, salty and ruthless...one of the ... Read more
Time Out
The poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy, gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscape
Guardian
Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny, salty and ruthless...one of the ... Read more