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.
posted by Literaryhero (2 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
I watched Farewell My Lovely last night, randomly, and somehow it got me thinking of this book. I guess Chandler and Crumley are in the same ballpark, but Crumleys novels are invariably just so amazingly bleak. I feel like Cormac McCarthy would tell him to lighten up hahaha.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:25 AM on December 21, 2024


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]


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