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.

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