James Crumley - Böcker

När privatspanaren C.W. Sughrue äntligen hittar författaren Abraham Trahearne är det på en sunkig bar i Kalifornien, där han sitter och dricker med en alkoholiserad bulldog. I baren arbetar Rosie, vars tonåriga dotter tio år tidigare försvunnit i ...

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'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin 'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane 'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George Pelecanos Meet Private Detec...

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Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive yo...

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The world's richest man invites a trio of mediocre golfers - Billy Sprague, who can't swing when money is at stake, hard-drinking Rita Shaugnessy and Alfonso Zamora, who is going blind - to play at an unknown Scottish course. Their efforts will so...

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Crumley in scintillating form: an anarchic, savagely violent and brilliantly written lament for a vanishing past Evening StandardJames Crumley is the king of hard-boiled noir, credited with inspiring the next generation of crime writers including ...

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A classic from a legend of American crime writing. Crumley writes like an angel on speed Time Out.Milo Milodragovitch isn t exactly an upstanding citizen. He s more than likely to be drunk, and leaves heartbreak in his wake; five ex-wives to be pr...

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This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel it s good. Very good Time OutSettling and calming down is never easy. Especially not for Milo Milodragovitch. He s set up a bar, and found a woman he...

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'A fantastic road trip...wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous, and obscene' New York TimesNever the most conventional of private detectives, C. W. Sughrue is called in to solve a far from traditional missing persons case. A beautif...

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'Crumley writes like an angel on speed' Time Out Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. 1962. Sergeant Jacob Slag Krummel, wannabe scholar now warrior, is posted to the base to take command of the 721st Communication Security Detachment, perhaps t...

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'The poet laureate of hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy, gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscape... Deeply compelling' Guardian Things are never straightforward for privat...

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Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother.Though it's not his us...

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'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George PelecanosMeet Private Detectiv...

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Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother. Though it's not his u...

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Zunächst sieht alles nach einem harmlosen Auftrag aus: Privatdetektiv Chauncey Wayne Sughrue aus Montana soll den Schriftsteller Abraham Trahearne ausfindig machen, der sich auf einer Sauftour quer durch Amerika befindet, und ihn zuru¿ck zu seiner...

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Zuna?chst sieht alles nach einem harmlosen Auftrag aus: Privatdetektiv Chauncey Wayne Sughrue aus Montana soll den Schriftsteller Abraham Trahearne ausfindig machen, der sich auf einer Sauftour quer durch Amerika befindet, und ihn zuru?ck zu seine...

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En frisk vårdag hittar privatspanaren C.W. Sughrue äntligen författaren Abraham Trahearne på en sunkig bar i Kalifornien, där han sitter och dricker öl tillsammans med en alkoholiserad bulldog. I baren arbetar Rosie, vars tonåriga dotter tio år ti...

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En frisk vårdag hittar privatspanaren C.W. Sughrue äntligen författaren Abraham Trahearne på en sunkig bar i Kalifornien, där han sitter och dricker öl tillsammans med en alkoholiserad bulldog. I baren arbetar Rosie, vars tonåriga dotter tio år ti...

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