NMLP P-040797 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Wrong Case
James Crumley · Random House (New York) · 1975
US Random House, New York, 1975 is the true first — the census claim is confirmed. It is Crumley's second book and his first crime novel — his first book was the Vietnam novel One to Count Cadence (1969) — and it introduces Milo Milodragovitch. The census note's comparative-scarcity claim relative to The Last Good Kiss is a market judgement rather than a bibliographical point and is not carried here.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040797 for "The Wrong Case" by James Crumley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040797, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).