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The couple was taken into custody at 1 a.m. today, Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue told The Huffington Post.
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When questioning a particularly difficult thug, Sughrue shoots him twice in the foot: "'Once to get his attention ... and once to let him know I was serious.'"
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The hero of Kiss is C.W. (Sonny) Sughrue, whose last name, as Crumley once explained it to me, is pronounced "sug as in sugar and rue as in rue the goddamned day."
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Three years after that, Crumley delivered Bordersnakes, which teamed Milo and Sughrue for the first time.
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Sughrue is a little younger than Milo and he isn't as bright, but he's a lot meaner, which comes in handy for a private eye wading through obsessions, sordid pasts and the dark places in men's souls.
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Crumley obviously has a full head of steam, and the news from his camp is that he's deep into writing his next Sughrue novel, The Right Madness.
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Over time, however, the two men showed some of their dissimilarities: Milo was a Korean War vet, Sughrue did his service during the Vietnam War and was court-martialed for killing an entire Vietnamese family the crime was unintentional, of course; Milo was the kinder and smarter of the two, Sughrue the more violent and mean.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Sughrue, sounds like a walking cliché--a part-time PI, part-time bartender at a strip club with a mountain of issues and substance abuse problems--but Sughrue is eminently believable and human.
2005, A Year in Books: Best Reads of the Year Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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In The Last Good Kiss, Sughrue tracks down Abraham Trahearne, a once-great writer gone to alcoholic seed, but the case soon mutates into a search for a runaway and an investigation of a secretive young wife.
2005, A Year in Books: Best Reads of the Year Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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Sughrue, sounds like a walking cliché--a part-time PI, part-time bartender at a strip club with a mountain of issues and substance abuse problems--but Sughrue is eminently believable and human.
Archive 2005-12-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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