James Crumley, Crime Novelist, Is Dead at 68
James Crumley, Crime Novelist, Is Dead at 68 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com:
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, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. He was 68 and lived in Missoula.