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Remembering Jim Crumley, the Last Good Detective Writernew

When the Texas-born novelist James Crumley died at age 68 on September 17, newspaper obituaries in Los Angeles, Washington, New York, and London all mentioned one of his sentences. The sentence was not the only notable string of words this fine writer composed, but devotees of his work often point to it as a landmark in modern detective fiction.
The Texas Observer  |  Dick Holland  |  11-19-2008  |  Books

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