The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

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Book name:	The Last Good Kiss (2024)
Category:	Mystery
Author:	James Crumley
Pages:	244 pages
ISBN13:	0394759893
ISBN:	0394759893
Language:	English
Publication data:	Nov. 5, 1988, 8 a.m.

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares.

About the author

James Crumley

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James Arthur Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel"and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson.His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."

Crumley, who was born in… Read more