Bibliographical Description
88.11.W056: Crumley – The Last Good Kiss: A Novel
[lipstick kiss graphic 28 x 33 mm] | THE | LAST | GOOD | KISS | A NOVEL BY | [rule 79 mm] | JAMES CRUMLEY | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
128 leaves, pp. [8] 1 2-14 15 16-26 27 28-34 35 36-46 47 48-55 56 57-68 69 70-82 83 84-99 100 101-117 118 119-130 131 132-139 140 141-148 149 150-160 161 162-181 182 183-199 200 201-216 217 218-226 227 228-238 239 240-244 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, November 1988
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b ‘ALSO BY JAMES CRUMLEY’, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication ‘for Dick Hugo, | good old detective of the heart’, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1-244 The Last Good Kiss, χ1a about the author, χ1b- χ2b ‘Also available from Vintage Contemporaries” blurbs
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; display typography by Anne Scatto; interior author photo by Lee Nye.
Copyright: © 1978. ISBN: 0-394-75989-3 / 9780394759890. Price: US $10 / CAD $12.50 (original price US $6.95). The Last Good Kiss was first published by Random House Inc. 1978.
Copies: JDP 1.6
Blurbs
- (front cover) The last good mystery. – Rolling Stone
- Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America’s sleaziest nightmares.
- For fans of private eye novels, this is right up there with the best! – People
- What Raymond Chandler did for the Los Angeles of the Thirties, James Crumley does for the roadside west of today. – Harper’s
- Potent…utterly right! – Wall Street Journal
- The Last Good Kiss carries more weight than any private-eye story since Ross Macdonald’s The Chill. – Rolling Stone
- One of the sternest voices in narrative fiction today. – Detroit News