Articles by James Crumley

Liquor, lawlessness, and loose, loose ladies

Jefferson Chase gets in to frontier territory with hard-boiled crime writer James Crumley

Think hard-boiled crime fiction, and probably one of the last settings you’d imagine is Montana. Big Sky Country is usually more of a place for logging boots than gumshoes, but wherever there’s a frontier, there’s liquor, lawlessness and loose women – three main ingredients of the noire genre. Jame...

Whisky Literature from Issue 45 published on 21/1/2005