The Wrong Case: A Novel: 1 (Milo Milodragovitch) - Softcover

Crumley, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394735587 ISBN 13: 9780394735580

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1985

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Book by Crumley James

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"Crumley is a vivid writer. He makes Milo much more vulnerable, more involved in this sordid case than Hammett or Chandler would have done. It is this kind of style that imprints itself on the reader's memory. . . . An exceptionally good example of the private-eye novel. Crumely writes about damaged people seen through a haze of jaded romanticism." --Newsweek

"An excellent example of new variations within an old genre. Crumley's story is a strong one, and the revelations continue until the last page." --Texas Monthly

"The Wrong Case is in the tradition of the Dashiell Hammett of The Glass Key and does full honor to Hammett. The story is powerful, the writing is high calibre." --Stanley Elkin

"A very good study in fatalism and self-destruction." --Hartford Courant

"If you like your detective fiction tough and tenacious, you will love James Crumley. . . . No one does it better." --Houston Chronicle

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An extraordinary detective story from one of the great American crime fiction authors. 

Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws he has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. He takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting to know her better, but finds himself involved in what is most definitely the wrong case. Everyone is a victim, one way or another, of a crime that took place long before the novel begins.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394735587
• ISBN 13: 9780394735580
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288