"Crumley, James"@en . . "1969Z"^^ . . "American writer" . "2008Z"^^ . . "1939Z"^^ . "1939-10-12Z"^^ . "James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 \u2013 September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as \"one of modern crime writing's best practitioners\", who was \"a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel\" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson."@en . . . "James Crumley"@en . "2005Z"^^ . "2008-09-17Z"^^ . "James Arthur Crumley"@en . .