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Review title: More Degrees of Viciousness
Product review: Crumley's "The Last Good Kiss" remains, for me, a top-notch hard-boiled piece of fiction, one of the very best. But this book goes way overboard because it relentlessly heads in far too many directions and ends up with a few - not just one - ludicrous situations and developments. lt's a book which becomes uglier as the plot moves forward and ends with at least 2 quite unsatisfying resolutions, including - SPOILER - the showing up of several characters from out of nowhere, especially a teenager seeking vengeance on one of the antagonists who had disappeared and hidden in a very remote location. How in heaven's name he was found is never, never explained...along with other important matters not revealed. As l tried to fill in the multitudinous gaps in the plot, my imagination was stretched to the limit by this disappointing Crumley effort.
