feldmarshmellon 's review for:

The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
5.0

"When I first moved to Meriwether, and for years before, the Red Baron had been a fine working and drinking man's bar called the Elbow Room, the sort of place where the bartender comes out into the parking lot at seven A.M. to wake up the drunks sleeping in their cars, then helps them inside, and buys the first drink."

"Trahearne sober and during certain stages of drunkenness was a sad old man with a hell of a load of character, but during other stages of his drunks, he was a two-hundred-fifty-pound fifty-seven-year-old schizophrenic child."