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Right Madness by James Crumley (2005, Hardcover)
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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670034061
ISBN-139780670034062
eBay Product ID (ePID)44122566
Product Key Features
Book TitleRight Madness
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Crumley
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-061191
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsHyperkinetic prose full of rotgut and rue. . . . No one does it better than Crumley. (People) What Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles of the Thirties, James Crumley does for the roadside West of today. (Harper’smagazine), Hyperkinetic prose full of rotgut and rue. . . . No one does it better than Crumley. ( People ) What Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles of the Thirties, James Crumley does for the roadside West of today. ( Harper’s magazine)
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisJames Crumley is one of the most influential crime writers of the post-Chandler era, and his raw, subversive novels have earned him living legend status. He first introduced readers to C. W. Sughrue (‘Shoog’ as in sugar. And ‘rue’ as in rue the goddamned day”) in his now classic The Last Good Kiss. An ex-army officer turned Montana private eye, Sughrue is as tough and cynical as he is good-hearted and weak-kneed when it comes to women and booze. He’s back to take readers on a bender through small towns, dark bars, and dank hotel rooms in a novel charged with Crumley’s genius for the poetry of violence.In The Right Madness, Sughrue’s close friend, psychiatrist Will MacKinderick, begs him to track down stolen confidential psychoanalysis files—he suspects one of his patients is the culprit. Going against every last instinct, Sughrue agrees to take on the case—a $20,000 retainer is always hard to resist. And when the suspects start dying of violently unnatural causes, Sughrue—fueled by alcohol, drugs, and lurid sexual entanglements—finds himself struggling to stay ahead of the madness unfolding around him.Before Pelecanos, Connelly, and Lehane, there was Crumley and, with The Right Madness, he shows us once again how he put the hard” in hard-boiled.”
LC Classification NumberPS3553.R78R54 2005
