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Summary: Detective novel that goes beyond the genre.
Review: The Wrong Case is a detecitive story set within a small city in the Pacific Northwest. It is also a story of greater size and theme than the conventional crime entertainment. It introduces Milo, a run-down alcholic private detective who will go on a personaland professional journey as only a hero can do.Crumley is a skilled and schooled writer. His characters are richly rendered, the plot is original and the suspenseis convincing. Unlike most detective works, Crumley manages to capture his city's growing pains with a Dickensian eye as well as examine his past with a touch of Greek tragedy.Don't miss any of Crumley's works. He captures the new American landscapeas nobody else can. I liken him to Graham Greene in the way he can deliveroriginal entertainment, excellent language, and themes much larger than a paperback
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Summary: Good Stories Never Die
Review: The Wrong Case: by James Crumley was Excellent! The Case gets you emotionally involved from the very start. I've heard of Crumley and always wanted to check him out. I was not disappointed and neither will you. Set in a fictional mid-western city called Merriweather, you are drawn into a sordid world of booze and drugs along with a great cast of misfits and neerdowells. Though dated, the hardboiled writing style and the plot, touches upon timeless themes of love and death that never grow old. As a matter of fact, the dated quality of the story makes it that much better. You are transported to a time (late 60's early 70's) that is at once familiar yet strangely abstract because of the never changing human condition. Highly recommend.
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Summary: Good Stories Never Die
Review: The Wrong Case: by James Crumley was Excellent! The Case gets you emotionally involved from the very start. I've heard of Crumley and always wanted to check him out. I was not disappointed and neither will you. Set in a fictional mid-western city called Merriweather, you are drawn into a sordid world of booze and drugs along with a great cast of misfits and neerdowells. Though dated, the hardboiled writing style and the plot, touches upon timeless themes of love and death that never grow old. As a matter of fact, the dated quality of the story makes it that much better. You are transported to a time (late 60's early 70's) that is at once familiar yet strangely abstract because of the never changing human condition. Highly recommend.
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Summary: Everything You Want In Hardboiled
Review: This gritty detective mystery has everything a good hardboiled book should have. A beautiful, yet troubled woman who has entered the detective's office looking for help, the down-on-his-luck detective who talks hard and drinks harder, a city that is in the grip of a crime-wave and a cracker of a mystery that builds to a terrific and unexpected ending.We are introduced to Milo Milodragovitch and his hard-drinking, drug-taking, skirt-chasing ways. Milo's on the edge after two failed marriages, a failing business and a drinking problem. He makes no apologies for any of his bad habits and is prepared to blow off anyone who has a problem with him. The woman who has entered his office steals his heart and asks him to find her brother who has been missing for the past three weeks. It's a case that he doesn't really want to take, but does because, as he freely admits, she is such a stunning woman he'd do anything on the off-chance she might go to bed with him. If anyone ever wanted to get a taste for modern hardboiled noir fiction, this would be the perfect book to read. I found myself drawn right into the book and could picture the town of Meriwether perfectly and at times I could picture myself occupying a stool at Mahoney's bar, the imagery is so vivid.
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