The Mexican Tree Duck (First Edition)

Crumley, James (First Edition)

ISBN 10: 0892963913 / ISBN 13: 9780892963911

Published by Mysterious Press, New York, 1993

About this Item

New York, Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. James Crumley published his first novel, "One to Count Cadence" (1969), set in the Philippines and Vietnam, which began as his 1966 master's thesis at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His novels "The Last Good Kiss," "The Mexican Tree Duck," and "The Right Madness" all feature the same private investigator, C.W. Sughrue, an alcoholic former Army officer turned P.I. "The Wrong Case," "Dancing Bear," and "The Final Country" feature a different private investigator, Milo Milodragovitch. In "Bordersnakes," Crumley brings both detectives together in a single novel. Crumley described the contrast between the two characters as follows: "Milo's first impulse is to help you; Sughrue's is to shoot you." Rear Mysteries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mexican Tree Duck (First Edition)
• Publisher: Mysterious Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892963913
• ISBN 13: 9780892963911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

About the Author

James Crumley has taught English at the University of Montana and has been Visiting Writer at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carnegie Mellon University.