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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.
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When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. Read the first page
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When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are only 5-10 books I rate 10 and this is one. Crumley's characters are real, not cardboard cutouts, they are rough hewn. The plot twists in this book are simply amazing. I was very angry at some of the characters at the end but, Crumley deals with that too. Simply outstanding!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Aside from having the best opening sentence of any hard-boiled mystery, The Last Good Kiss is a classic mystery. Down-on-his-luck detective searching for Hemingwayesque author who, entangled in the battles of the bottle and of writer's block, has dropped out of sight. No less than three women in the author's life (ex-wife, current wife, and mother) alternately hire, thwart, entice, seduce, reject, and otherwise befuddle the hero-detective. Lots of drinking, lots of road trips in the majestic Northwest, and fantastic writing from Crumley.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Last Good Kiss starts off slowly with a mildly interesting task for our hero, but soon the novel spills over into a booze-soaked road novel with intrigue, seduction and double-crosses. A must on any bookshelf.
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The cream of the genre!
Excellent, hard-boiled criminal fiction set against the background of a wonderfully delipitated America. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2009 by Cheeves
Good, but...
Excellently written. Great dialogue, adequate characterizations, but frankly, the motivations of some of the characters, particularly the alcoholic author, Trahearne, make little... Read more
Published on 31 May 1999
A 1970s detective out of the Old West
C.W. Sughrue is not politically correct, not worried about offending anyone's sensitive nature. No pretense at a morality tale here. C.W. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 1997
Top-notch Crumley. One of the real champs.
Excellent and highly recommended.
Published on 11 May 1997
A great book.
And it is a genre that I don't usually read. A pulp fiction (not the movie, the style) style book with substance.
Published on 11 Jun 1996
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