Elmore Leonard

Book List in Order: 92 titles

  • Double Dutch Treat

    This hefty volume is a triple treat, really, containing three of ``Dutch'' Leonard's novels that appeared before his belated rise to fame. Each narrative is vivified by the author's tuned-in dialogue, descriptions of widely separated locales and outr...

  • Charlie Martz and Other Stories

    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 Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest ...

  • Confession

    In this never-before-published story, Elmore Leonard, the late “modern master of American genre writing,” puts a darkly playful twist on the Wild West showdown. Set in a dusty Arizona town when Apaches still roamed the land, “Confession” tell...

  • The Trespassers

    This never-before-published story is a chilling forebear to the tales that made the late, great Elmore Leonard the “King Daddy” of crime with a twist. Told from the perspective of a young wife who’s become increasingly frustrated with her mild-...

  • Raylan

    With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you -- espec...

  • Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories

    The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He's one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard's half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed no...

  • Djibouti

    Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered the rape of Bosnian women, neo-Nazi white supremacists, and post-Katrina New Orleans, and has won awards for all three. Now, looking for a bigger challenge, Dara and her right...

  • Road Dogs

    Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. Jack Foley, the charming bank robber from Out of...

  • The Complete Western Stories

    A bull's-eye of a short fiction collection that spans the master's career. In 1950, fresh out of college and keen to make his name as a writer, Elmore Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be...




  • Up in Honey's Room

    The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know...

  • The Hot Kid

    Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man--a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid ...

  • The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

    A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master’s writing career The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five d...

  • A Coyote's in the House

    Buddy's an aging movie star. Antwan's a rough-and-tumble loner. And Miss Betty, the show girl, is a princess. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing: they're all dogs...at heart. Though Antwan's the leader of his pack and loves h...

  • Mr. Paradise

    In hindsight, Victoria's Secret model Kelly Barr thinks maybe it wasn't such a great idea to accompany her callgirl roommate Chloe to Tony Paradiso's house. The wealthy, eighty-fouryear-old retired Motor City lawyer's idea of fun was innocent enough:...

  • When the Women Come Out to Dance

    The unrivaled master of crime''s first collection of noir stories. . . . “If you thought you knew all the places Elmore Leonard could take you, think again.”-Mike Lupica In more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has capt...

  • Tishomingo Blues

    Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi--diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, ...

  • Chickasaw Charlie Hoke
  • Pagan Babies

    Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt -- wearing padre is back tryin...

  • Fire in the Hole

    “[Leonard’s] most satisfying book since Out of Sight….Top-notch work from one of our most gifted and consistently entertaining writers.”—New York Times Book Review“Vintage Leonard….Nine stories with booze and shotguns and lowlifes…and...

  • Be Cool

    GET SHORTY'S CHILI PALMER IS BACK. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. After a smash hit in Get Leo and a flop in Get Lost, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea--u...

  • Hanging Out at the Buena Vista
  • Sparks

  • Freaky Deaky

    On the New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks, this explosive new novel by the author of Glitz spotlights an untamed group of Sixties rejects intent on bombing Detroit. Their seemingly fool-proof plot takes some foul turns as they try to keep th...

  • Cuba Libre

    Welcome to Cuba, 1898--where the insurrectos are in the hills, the rich are partying in Havana, and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders are about to come ashore. Into the melee an American cowboy arrives with a scheme to sell horses and run guns, earning ...

  • Out of Sight

    Decked out in her black Chanel suit and heels, deputy U.S. marshal Karen Sisco has driven up to Glades, one of Florida's medium security joints, to serve some papers. It's a boring job, but somebody's got to do it. She doesn't expect to arrive in the...

  • The Odyssey

  • Karen Makes Out

    in Murder for Love

    Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....

  • Riding the Rap

    Many imitate him but none can touch him. He's set  the standard against which all other crime novels  are measured. His signature is vise-tightening  suspense, crackling dialogue, and deadeye wit. And  now, in Riding The Rap, Elmore  Leonar...

  • Hurrah for Captain Early



  • Pronto

    Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better. Washington Post The man knows how to grab youand Pronto is one of the best grabbers in years. Entertainment Weekly Fans of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified ar...

  • Rum Punch

    Pretty working-girl Jackie Burke is in a tight spot. She's just been picked up at  Palm Beach International with fifty grand and some blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky for her, the  Feds want something Jackie's got: the inside track to Ordell...

  • Maximum Bob

    A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert “Maximum Bob” Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sen...

  • Gold Coast

    Gorgeous widow Karen diCilia just found out what it really means to be married to the mob.  Her mafia husband Frank left her millions and a Florida Gold Coast mansion.  He also left orders that she'd lose everything the day she slept with another...

  • Get Shorty

    Miami mob little-guy, loan shark Chili Palmer, is seriously thinking of a career change when a client skips town. Pursuit leads him to L.A.... and the rest, as they say, is history. As a crook, Chili has all the qualifications to make it in the movie...

  • Killshot

    “[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway.”—NewsweekThe New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette once called, “the Alexander th...

  • Dutch Treat

  • Touch

    A former Franciscan brother trades in his monk's cassock to work in a Detroit drug and alcohol rehab center. His uncanny ability to help even the most hopeless cases seems miraculous, and he soon goes on the run to avoid the fanatic evangelist and ot...

  • Bandits

    Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con. They've got their eyes on several million dollars that they've decided should not be sent to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Of course, a lot of other people have their eyes on th...

  • Primevil

  • Glitz

    When Miami Beach detective Vincent Mora's quirky girlfriend turns up dead, only seven days after taking a hostess job in Atlantic City, Mora investigates the circumstances and comes up against La Cosa Nostra...

  • LaBrava

    FADE TO BLACK Ex-secret service agent Joseph LaBrava had it all under control. South Miami Beach action. Easy living in an old Deco hotel. A new start as a portrait photographer. Then he met Jean Shaw. A once-famous actress. Still soft, sexy, and s...

  • Stick

    After time served for armed robbery, ex-con "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside, and down in Miami for a private family reunion. But it's tough going straight in a crooked town, especially when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for a...

  • Cat Chaser

    Sixteen years after the Dominican revolution, ex-Marine George Moran is drawn by his memory of a beautiful female sniper back to the killing ground that has become a major center of intrigue, double-dealing, and ruthless murder...

  • The Tonto Woman

    Welcome to a world where the Hatch & Hodges stagecoach runs on time or someone will catch hell, and where a man knows the difference between handling a Winchester rifle and a Sharps and a Henry--or pays for it with his life. Before he became on...

  • Split Images

    Quintessential Elmore Leonard, Split Images stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. He's the kind of guy who gets away with everything -- even murder -- until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. When this millionaire repti...

  • City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

    “As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” —Washington PostThe City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-malign...

  • Gunsights

    Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of...

  • The Switch

    Black Ordell Robbie and white Louis Gara have lots in common--time in the same slammer, convictions for grand theft auto, and a plan for a big score. They're going to snatch the wife of a Detroit developer and collect some easy ransom money. They don...

  • Unknown Man #89

    Jack Ryan was an expert at finding people. Particularly people who didn't want to be found. This time he was looking for a guy named Robert Leary, a/k/a Bobby Lear. But looking was leading to trouble. Because a pretty blond with bedroom eyes hated Bo...




  • The Hunted

    “Wonderful…razor-sharp.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review“Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.”—Bergan RecordIn Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted, “crime fiction...

  • Swag / Ryan's Rules

    Three guys with illegal expertise, a plan to snag a tax-free hundred grand, and a taste for summertime Detroit's sweet life. But it means committing armed robbery. And being smart enough to get away with it....

  • 52 Pick-Up

    Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair during his 22-year marriage. Unfortunately, someone caught the indiscretion on film and wants $100,000 to keep it a secret. If Harry doesn't pay, the new price will be his life. But the hoods...

  • Mr. Majestyk

    LIMITS... Vincent Majestyk had had enough -- enough fighting, enough war, enough death. He knew too well the feel of the recoil, the sight of a human target falling. That's why, when he took off his uniform and became a civilian, he swore he would ne...

  • Forty Lashes Less One

    The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, an...

  • Valdez is Coming

    VALDEZ They only knew the hard-working, respectful Bob Valdez. In another place he had been something else, a dangerous man. A man who could track over parched ground and hide where there was no cover and rise up and kill an enemy with one shot. It...

  • The Big Bounce

    Jack Ryan seemed destined for a dreary life of picking cucumbers and doing odd jobs as a handyman before he met Nancy Hayes, a young seductress who got her thrills by smashing windows and breaking the hearts of married men. On the bleak coast of nort...

  • The Moonshine War

    It  was Prohibition, and a big, hell-raising Son  Martin had himself something special: $125,000 worth  of Kentucky's finest home-made whiskey, no one was  going to steal it. Because when it came to  shooting, fighting, and outsmarting the ...

  • Hombre

    “Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.”—USA Today“A classic….Leonard’s writing style is as effortless and enjoyable as watching a good movie.” —Portland OregonianGrand Maste...

  • Only the Good Ones

  • Bull Ring at Blisston
  • Last Stand at Saber River

    BLOOD OF A SOLDIER A one-armed man stood before Denaman's store, and the girl named Luz was scared. Paul Cable could see that from the rise two hundred yards away, just as he could see that everything had changed while he was away fighting for the Co...

  • Fury at Four Turnings
  • Escape from Five Shadows

    Corey Bowen is an innocent man. Wrongly convicted, and imprisoned in the brutal labor camp at Five Shadows run by a sadistic embezzler willing to kill to keep his scheme running, Bowen is determined to break out or die trying. The trackers have alrea...

  • The Kid

    Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man—a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid...

  • The Longest Day of His Life
  • Man with the Iron Arm
  • Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories

    Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier -- elevating a popular genre with his now-tradem...

  • The Nagual

  • The Captives

  • Going Home

  • Jugged

  • No Man's Guns

  • The Law at Randado

    Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron''s men drag two prisoners from Frye''s jail and hang them from a high tree, there''s nothing the young lawman can do about it....

  • Saint with a Six Gun

  • 3:10 to Yuma

    A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master’s writing career The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five d...

  • The Big Hunt

  • Blood Money

    A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master’s writing career The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five d...

  • The Bounty Hunters

    The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One--Dave Flynn--knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. Bu...

  • The Boy Who Smiled

  • The Hard Way

  • The Last Shot

  • Long Night

    PERIL PRESS presents: Zane Grey’s Western, May 1953 LONG NIGHT by Elmore Leonard Dove Boland needed money—but he needed even more to learn that you don‘t get something for nothing. 4600 Words PLUS BONUS!!! Western Story, April 17 1943 DESERT...

  • The Rustlers

  • Trouble at Rindo's Station
  • Under the Friar's Edge
  • Apache Medicine

  • Cavalry Boots

  • The Colonel's Lady

  • Law of the Hunted Ones
  • Red Hell Hits Canyon Diablo
  • You Never See Apaches...
  • Trail of the Apache

    A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master’s writing career The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five d...

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