The Wrong Case - Signed
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1974
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Very good or better in a like jacket, unclipped. Boards a bit faded around the edges, spine ends crumpled, and corners bumped. The bottom text block has reddish stains, not affecting the pages themselves. Front panel of jacket toned, moderate edge wear with short closed tears hear and there, front flap with a crease from a former fold.
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- Title
- The Wrong Case - Signed
- Author
- Crumley, James
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Very Good or Better
- Dust jacket
- Very Good or Better
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394496183
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496184
- Edition
- A First Edition, First Printing
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 1 of 4: Milo Milodragovitch
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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Review
"A very good study in fatalism and self-destruction."-- Hartford Courant
"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." -- Newsweek
"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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