Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother. Though it's not his usual line of work, Milo agrees to help - he needs the money, and he wants to spend more time with this beautiful woman. But this is far from a routine case, and whispers of a long-past crime haunt Milo's every move . . . 'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked ...
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Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother. Though it's not his usual line of work, Milo agrees to help - he needs the money, and he wants to spend more time with this beautiful woman. But this is far from a routine case, and whispers of a long-past crime haunt Milo's every move . . . 'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin 'Like James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry' Independent
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Very Good in Very Good+ jacket. Inscribed by James Crumley (dated 2/22/78), tight binding, clean throughout, sunned edges clean boards and bright silver titles, slight bump to the lower right corner, jacket is clean and colorful with mild toning.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 272 p. Fine first edition in fine dust jacket, protected by mylar cover, Signed by author on title page. A very nice copy