The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
December 21, 2024 3:22 AM - Subscribe
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. (blurb stolen from Amazon)
CW: uhhhh, all of them, including the dog dies, and in the shittiest possible way.
CW: uhhhh, all of them, including the dog dies, and in the shittiest possible way.
Oh, but when it comes to great opening lines:
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.
Yeah, I know what I like.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:27 AM on December 21, 2024 [2 favorites]
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.
Yeah, I know what I like.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:27 AM on December 21, 2024 [2 favorites]
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