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James E Devlin
This American author of popular crime novels ( Freaky Deaky, Rum Punch ) often adapted for film, is well known for his use of local color and his ear for…
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Peter Leonard,Elmore Leonard
First of a brilliant two-part series leading from 70s Detroit to 40s Nazi Germany from a new master of crime writing.
Elmore Leonard
For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect, Leonard explains…
No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This first-ever compilation of Leonard’s thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of the…
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Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
Rzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer’s long life and prodigious output: 45…
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America’s premier storyteller presents seven classic tales of the Old West in this entry of his four-book collection.
New York Times -bestselling author Leonard brings his trademark style and wit to this new novel featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, hero of the hit FX series Justified.
For three years Al Rosen has lived in Israel, hiding from the mobsters he testified against. But when a lone gunman in a sleek BMW opens fire on Al in…
Carl Webster, the gunslinging U.S. Marshal from The Hot Kid and Up in Honey’s Room, serves as the centerpiece of two stories and one novella, in this never-before-published-in-the-U.S. collection from…
Driven by terrific characters and superb writing, these short pieces (including two novella-length works) are Elmore Leonard at his economical best.
German-born Walter Schoen, now living in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshal’s Service, looking for a German officer…
The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with three of his favourite characters, each one out to win, in a fast-moving plot that’s one of his best
Originally published in 1969, this classic revolves around a bored young couple that looks for thrills in bleak northern Michigan. Their scheme to grab a $50,000 payroll takes an evil…
A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN.
No one has ever escaped the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows–but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. Beaten nearly to death after his last escape attempt, Corey…
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A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.
Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore…
Ice cool former loan shark Chili Palmer returns in the sequel to GET SHORTY - and this time he’s taking on LA’s music industry in a tale of drama, jealousy…
Wealthy cattle baron Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a kid with a tin badge. So when Sundeen’s men drag two prisoners from Frye’s jail and hang…
Another of Leonard’s classic westerns is available once again. Brendan Early and Dana Moon track renegade Apaches together and gun down scalp hunters, becoming legends in the Arizona Territory. But…
Hot cars, gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder are the game in this powerfully entertaining story set in Oklahoma during the 1930s and introduces Carl Webster, one of the…
Seven classic tales of the Old West by New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard are featured in this volume–part of a four-book paperback collection of Leonard’s Western short stories…
Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game, but now she’s looking for an even bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man–a six-foot-six, 72-year-old, African-American man…
Featuring Raylan Givens from the FX series Justified –Cover.
Vincent Mora just can’t win. He’s been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there’s a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set…
Ex-cons, armed robberies and scams in Miami - another classic crime thriller from the masterful Elmore Leonard.
Detroit process server and ex-thug Jack Ryan is very good at finding people–especially people who don’t want to be found. Now he’s being offered large bucks to locate a lost…
Gorgeous widow Karen diCilia’s late Mafia husband Frank leaves her millions and a Florida Gold Coast mansion. He also leaves orders that she’ll lose everything the day she gets involved…
Originally published: New York: Bantam Books, c1978.
First in the New York Times bestselling author’s classic Western series. Part-time constable Robert Valdez was sent to deal with a man holed up in a shack with a gun–and…
Former Secret Service agent Joe LaBrava gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hitman who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and…
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A young sheriff must stand up to a wealthy cattle baron and his hired men.
This classic tale of betrayal, justice, and frontier law is the first novel written by bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever. –…
Four hardboiled novels from America’s modern master of crime fiction, edited and with an introduction by Leonard’s long-term employee, researcher and friend. A must-have, collectable edition of four of Elmore…
Chili Palmer, a Miami loanshark, and Harry Zimm, a film producer in debt, become reluctant partners as they become embroiled in the seductive but deadly Hollywood scene. Reprint.
After tunneling out of a Florida penitentiary, Jack Foley surfaces to find himself face to face with federal marshal Karen Sisco. However, Sisco is not ready for the celebrity con…
An explosive thriller from the ‘greatest living writer of crime fiction’ [NEW YORK TIMES].
Carmen Colson saw the scam. And now she and Wayne, her ironworker husband, have to pay. Because Blackbird kills smart and deadly. Richie kills stupid and crazy. Both are out…
As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.
–Washington Post
The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is…
Previously published by HarperTorch paperback in 2002.
A vintage roller-coaster ride from ‘the hottest thriller writer in the US’ [Time]
First in a new, beautifully-packaged Elmore Leonard Classic Western Series. As he tracks a notorious Apache called Soldado Viejo through the lawless Arizona Territory, Army scout David Flynn follows a…
Road Dogs is Leonard at his best–with his trademark tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialogue–and readers are sure to love seeing Cundo Rey, Jack Foley, and Dawn Navarro back in action…
