James Arthur Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
Genres: Mystery
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1. The Last Good Kiss (1979)
The Mexican Tree Duck (1993)
Bordersnakes (1996)
The Right Madness (2005)
1. The Last Good Kiss (1979)
The Mexican Tree Duck (1993)
Bordersnakes (1996)
The Right Madness (2005)
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