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wherever you get your podcasts. David, this weekend I read James Crumbly's private eye novel The

Last Good Kiss. And I loved it. What I want to know is why didn't you tell me about this book sooner?

I can't believe I never told you about this book. There are literally only like the only

books that I ever, well I say the only like mystery novels vaguely defined that I ever like

hand to people and physical copies are the last good kiss and Daniel Woodrow's

uh uh uh uh the the the the bio trilogy like the bio trilogy collection is freaking amazing.

Um you didn't hand it to me though. I know I know I know I know I think I think I don't know when he

could appear it in my life this right crumbly but he is just absolutely the best in that trilogy

I think loosely it's a loose trilogy is uh is just fantastic. He's I mean crumbly is

his sentence for since just one of the great writers of all time he's he's he it's so good. You

know they tried to make a TV show of that with Paul Giamatti I think before right before

billions or something it's it's it's so good but yes I know we talk about this all the time

but for the record I mean most of the people that I'm reading are I feel like you're so sort of like

baked into the fabric of well ever use bookstore you go into that it sort of

beside the point for me to mention them but there's all the oldies right like everybody reads

is read like James M. Kane and Jim Thompson is sort of unavoidable I love Jim Thompson to death

but he's sort of unavoidable um and everybody I think a lot of people have like a you know like

Chris and Andy love Ross Mcdonald I'm like a John D Mcdonald guy although Ross Mcdonald is good

those two are like in mass market paperbacks and you know competing for space um but if you don't read

I mean if you want to read some good stuff uh most of these are people who you've heard of but

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