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The 1980s was the decade when Elmore Leonard came into his own as the most popular and critically acclaimed crime writer in America. The four novels collected here show him at the top of his game. Each in its own way displays his unique ear for the jazzy cadences of American speech, his ability to create extraordinary characters on both sides of the law, and his genius for exhilaratingly unpredictable stories that slide on a dime from hard-edged menace to unexpected comedy. For three months in 1978, Leonard shadowed detectives from Detroits homicide squad for a profile commissioned by The Detroit News . From that experience came the inspiration for City Primeval , perhaps his greatest Detroit novel, a modern-day showdown between a lawman and an outlaw filled with echoes of the Westerns that were Leonards early specialty. (This volume presents, as a special feature, Impressions of Murder, the brilliant piece Leonard wrote for The Detroit News Sunday Magazine .) LaBrava moves the action to a steamy, seamy Miami, as a Secret Service agent turned photographer finds himself embroiled in a scheme involving a long-forgotten, but still alluring, film noir actress. Old-time movie lore,

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Author

Elmore Leonard; Gregg Sutter, editor

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598534122

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14