The Last Good Kiss -- James Crumley, Paperback

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.

Author: James Crumley
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 11/05/1988
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.25w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780394759890

Review Citation(s):
Men's Journal 12/01/2007 pg. 92
Newsweek 12/17/2007 pg. 14
Newsweek 09/29/2008 pg. 14
Time 10/06/2008 pg. 26

About the Author
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. After serving three years in the U.S. Army and completing college degrees in history (BA, Texas College of Arts and Industries) and creative writing (MFA, University of Iowa), he joined the English faculty at the University of Montana at Missoula. He was also a visiting professor at a number of other institutions around the country, including the University of Texas at El Paso, Colorado State University, Reed College, and Carnegie-Mellon. His works include a novel of Vietnam, One to Count Cadence, and seven detective novels: The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, Dancing Bear, The Mexican Tree Duck, Bordersnakes, The Final Country, and The Right Madness. He died in Missoula in 2008.