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DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, first state (no statement of printing on copyright page). The author's fourth novel. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, first state (no statement of printing on copyright page). The author's fourth novel. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, second state (first edition statement and number line ending with two on the copyright page). The author's fourth novel. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
THE LAST GOOD KISS.
NY: Random House, 1978. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The author's third novel and first C. W. Sughrue. "...[Crumley's] principal setting is the bleak magnificence of western Montana and his prevailing mood a wacked out post-Vietnam empathy with all sorts of dopers, losers, and loonies, the human wreckage of the institutionalized butchery we call the real world." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 262-263. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
THE MEXICAN TREE DUCK.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. C.W. Shugrue.
ONE TO COUNT CADENCE.
[New York]: Random House, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. Set during the early days of the Viet-Nam conflict at Clark Air Base in the Philippines with later action in Viet-Nam. "...is the compelling study of gratuitous violence in men-and how it is unleashed by the frustrations of military life. It is a story of bars, brawls and brothels-and I don't know of any writer who has done better..." - David Dempsey, The New York Times 16 November, 1969.