![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosie gives Sughrue a list of people Betty Sue was close with before she left-her former drama teacher, her ex-boyfriend, and her best friend in high school. Sughrue reluctantly agrees-against his better judgment, he enjoys Trahearne's company. When he hears of this, Trahearne insists that he accompany Sughrue on his investigation-for a lark, he says. ![]() While he's waiting for Trahearne to be released, Sughrue is hired by bar owner Rosie to find her beloved daughter Betty Sue, missing for ten years. A confrontation in the bar results in Trahearne's being slightly injured and put in hospital. Sughrue eventually learns that Trahearne is a famous novelist and respected poet, but when he finds him in a run-down bar in Sonoma California, Trahearne is just another drunk on the run from a domineering ex-wife. The novel begins at the end of Sughrue's search for the missing Abraham Trahearne. Aside from exploring themes common to novels of this genre (specifically, the corruptive potential of money, love, sex, and power), "The Last Good Kiss" also explores themes relating to the layering of identity and an individual's inability to escape his/her past. A parallel narrative explores the complex relationship between Sughrue, a wandering alcoholic novelist, and the three powerful women in the novelist's life. This novel, written in the style and literary traditions of the so-called "hard boiled" crime novel, tells the story of private investigator CW Sughrue's search for a runaway young woman, missing for ten years. ![]()
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