Neil and Mark:
<< Neil wrote:
"James Crumley wrote these fantastic detective novels:
The Wrong Case,
Dancing Bear, The Last Good Kiss, The Mexican Tree Duck
(okay, it was
sketchy but good), and Bordersnakes. He sticks his
loners in the
American West and lets them drink infinite amounts of
alcohol."
Don't forget the drugs.
"Weirdness all over the place. He's a national
treasure."
In my mind, The Last Good Kiss is the best post-Vietnam
private eye
novel, period. >>
Crumley also wrote a Vietnam Vietnam novel, which I haven't
read: "One Count to Cadence." I think it is his first novel,
hard to find (?), well-respected in the literature of Vietnam
(maybe?--that's another list and something I know little
about). Doug
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