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Crumley said of his two private detectives: "Milo's first impulse is to help you Sughrue's is to shoot you in the foot."Crumley had a cult following, and his work is said to have inspired a generation of crime writers in both the U.S. In the novel Bordersnakes, Crumley brought both characters together. The Wrong Case, Dancing Bear and The Final Country feature another P.I., Milo Milodragovitch.

Sughrue, an alcoholic ex-army officer turned private investigator. His novels The Last Good Kiss, The Mexican Tree Duck and The Right Madness feature the character C.W. His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."Crumley's first published novel, 1969's One to Count Cadence, which was set in the Philippines and Vietnam, began as the thesis for his master's degree in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1966.

He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. James Arthur Crumley (Octo– September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.