![]() ![]() ![]() James Crumley, a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, profanity-laced, breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, utterly dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe New York TimesĬrumley is the singular reason that a lot of today's forty-something writers headed straight into crime fiction Laura LippmanĬrumley is a brilliant purveyor of dialogue and a master of melancholy loneliness. Like James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry Independent It started with a kiss In the back row of a classroom How could I resist The aroma of your perfume You and I were inseparable It was love at first sight You made me promise to marry you I made you promise to be my wife But then you were only eight years old. Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course.funny, salty and ruthless.one of the marvels of contemporary crime writing Literary Review 'It Started with a Kiss' is a song by the band Hot Chocolate featured in the radio station VCFL in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature, superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy, gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscape Guardian Crumley writes like an angel on speed Time Out I indulged in a careless kiss with my unavailable childhood playmate I didn't commit grand theft auto. ![]()
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