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The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * One of the most influential crime novels ever written, by a legend of the genre.Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is 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.
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and grew up in South Texas for the majority of his life. After three years in the United States, He joined the English faculty at the University of Montana at Missoula after serving in the Army and earning degrees in history (BA, Texas College of Arts and Industries) and creative writing (MFA, University of Iowa). He also taught at a number of other universities across the country, including the University of Texas at El Paso, Colorado State University, Reed College, and Carnegie-Mellon University. One to Count Cadence is a Vietnam novel, while The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, Dancing Bear, The Mexican Tree Duck, Bordersnakes, The Last Country, and The Right Madness are seven detective novels. In 2008, he died in Missoula.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780394759890 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394759893 |
| Title | The Last Good Kiss |
| Author | James Crumley |
| Series | Cw Sughrue |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1988-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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