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Dancing Bear

James Crumley

Ages 16+

Readers rate it 3.7 (3 on Hardcover)

241 pages · Released Sep 12, 1984

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Medium confidence

LGBTQ+ themes

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Dancing Bear is a hard-boiled detective noir novel featuring a morally compromised private investigator entangled with criminals, drugs, and weapons. The book contains substantial adult content including heavy drinking, drug use, profanity, and violent action sequences typical of the genre. While it offers some exploration of redemption and flawed characters, it is intended for mature readers comfortable with noir conventions and adult themes.

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From the publisher

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case sin... Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke . . . and suddenly Milo is on the run.

Shelved under

  • Fiction
  • Milo Milodragovitch (Fictitious character)
  • Private investigators
  • Milodragovitch, milo (fictitious character), fiction
  • Sughrue, c. w. (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Montana, fiction

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ISBN 9780394725765 · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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