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> There's a magnificent dog "character" in Crumley's "The Last Good
Kiss",
> that follows the PI in all the bars, and drinks as much as his elected
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Crumley introduced the dog in one of the great opening lines in
detective fiction: "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."
The bulldog's namesake was an early NASCAR star winning the Daytona
500 in 1962 and dying after a bad crash and burn at the Charlotte 600
in 1964.
Richard Moore
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