The Last Good Kiss Av James Crumley

<p><b>''As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for'' Ian Rankin</b><br><br><b>''A friggin'' masterpiece'' Dennis Lehane</b><br><br><b>''The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists'' George Pelecanos</b><br><br>Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. <br><br>Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes – everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret.<br><br>At the end of a three-week hunt for a runaway bestselling author, Sughrue winds up in a ramshackle bar, with an alcoholic bulldog. The landlady’s daughter vanished a decade ago and now she wants Sughrue to find her. His search will take him to the deepest, darkest depths of San Francisco’s underbelly, a place as fascinating, frightening and flawed as he is. <br><br><b>Welcome to James Crumley’s America.</b></p>