Collected together in this volume are three crime novels –
- The Wrong Case, featuring Milo Milodragovitch, an investigative newcomer.
- The Last Good Kiss, in which C.W. Sughure, a man with a fondness for drink, attempts to track down a writer.
- Dancing Bear, with Milo again.
James Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. 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. Thompson.