James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss I was somewhat timidly holding a can of Rainier Beer at my first faculty/graduate student/local writers’ bash in Missoula, Montana, the first time I saw him.

James Crumley, a revered and influential crime novelist whose hard-boiled detective tales set in Montana and other Western locales were praised for both their grittiness and the lyrical quality of ...

James Crumley's classic 1978 novel "The Last Good Kiss" features an opening line that reflects his love of Raymond Chandler: "When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer ...

When he ponders how he got here, he doesn't hesitate to give credit where credit is due: late Missoula writer James Crumley and his 1978 novel, "The Last Good Kiss." "It's the book that changed ...

James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary ...

GRIT and excess are the stuff of The Final Country, James Crumley's sprawling tale of Texas discontent in private-eye trappings. Milo Milodragovitch, 60-ish and feeling it, finds himself in Austin ...

HELENA – Crime novelist James Crumley, whose hardened detectives worked cases in dingy Montana bars and other rough hangouts around Big Sky Country, has died after years of poor health.

Though I never met James Crumley, in the late 1960s we were both at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop–where being a mystery writer put you pretty far in the back of the bus. Crumley ...

“Alcohol was not invented by accident. It was invented by people who needed a drink.” -James Crumley, interviewed in Paris, France, 1988. When the Texas-born novelist James Crumley died at age ...

said James Crumley, the antiterrorism deputy division chief for the Office of the Provost Marshal General. "Each member of the Army community should be actively involved in combatting against ...

It was 1975. His first detective novel, The Wrong Case, was imminent. I had never heard of James Crumley and few others had either. Most of us had not yet read his masterpiece, One to Count ...