This starts with private eye C W Sughrue tracking down a writer out on a bender and leads into the search for a girl missing in San Francisco for 10 years.
Assisting Sughrue is the alcoholic bulldog 'Fireball' and the 'writer' he has managed to track down.
This story takes us through the really seedy west coast of the USA and it is without a doubt Crumley's masterpiece.
This book would be one of the five best hard boiled detective novels ever written.
I am a huge fan of Crumley's but it is not an exaggeration on my behalf to describe it as brilliant,this is not hyperbole simply the truth.
Rolling Stone magazine says " The Last Good Kiss" ..the last good mystery.
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