James Crumley

C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch

1 - The Wrong Case (1975)
2 - Dancing Bear (Mar-1983)
3 - The Last Good Kiss (1978)
4 - The Mexican Tree Duck (Sep-1993)
5 - Bordersnakes (Nov-1996)
6 - The Final Country (Oct-2001)

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  The Wrong Case
  

  • 1975
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 1
  

  Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young...

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  The Last Good Kiss
  

  • 1978
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 3
  

  "When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart out of a fine spring afternoon... " That's how Det...

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  Dancing Bear
  

  • Mar-1983
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 2
  

  Detective Milodragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run....

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  The Muddy Fork
  

  • Jun-1984
  • / General Fiction
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  One of 50 deluxe numbered copies signed by Crumley on a special page at the beginning of the book. Quarter leather and marbled boards as issued with gold stamping on the spine without dust jacket as issued....

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  One to Count Cadence
  

  • May-1987
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  The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob “Slag” Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Detachment, and unsoldierly crew of b...

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  Whores
  

  • Apr-1989
  • / Literary
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  The Muddy Fork and Other Things
  

  • Oct-1991
  • / Literary
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  The Mexican Tree Duck
  

  • Sep-1993
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 4
  

  For the crime of executing a jukebox on a lonesome Montana railbed, C. W. Sughrue ("Shoog as in sugar. And rue as in rue the goddamned day.") has been sentenced to do business with the hardest hard cases in the new American West--and to locate a miss...

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  Hot Springs
  

  in Murder for Love

  • 1996
  • / Mystery
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  Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....

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  Bordersnakes
  

  • Nov-1996
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 5
  

  ONE GOT SHOT. THE OTHER GOT MAD. Someone took all the money Milo's daddy left for him. Someone shot Sughrue in the stomach and left him to die. Now, the two toughest private eyes ever to come from Montana are driving a massive El Dorado through Texa...

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  The Final Country
  

  • Oct-2001
  • / Private Investigator
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  C. W. Sughrue & Milo Milodragovitch - 6
  

  Milo Milodragovitch is back in Texas, running the bar of his dreams and trying to do a little private investigating on the side. His relationship with his woman is on the rocks ever since his overnight fling with the classy, scotch-drinking Molly McB...

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  The Right Madness
  

  • May-2005
  • / Suspense
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  James 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 ...

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  The Mexican Pig Bandit
  

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Award-Winning Books by James Crumley

The Mexican Tree Duck
1994 Hammett -- Best Novel