Elmore Leonard
Book List
93 titles
93 titles
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Charlie Martz and Other Stories
General Fiction
Jun-2015
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 ...
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Confession
Historical
Jan-2014
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...
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The Trespassers
Thriller
Jan-2014
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-...
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Raylan
Mystery
Jan-2012
Raylan Givens - 3
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...
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Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
Suspense
Oct-2010
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...
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Djibouti
Suspense
Oct-2010
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...
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Road Dogs
Suspense
May-2009
Jack Foley - 2
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...
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The Complete Western Stories
Aug-2007
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...
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Up in Honey's Room
Suspense
May-2007
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...
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The Hot Kid
Suspense
May-2005
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 ...
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
Historical
Dec-2004
Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontierelevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, r...
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A Coyote's in the House
Fantasy
Jun-2004
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...
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Mr. Paradise
Suspense
Jan-2004
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:...
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Tishomingo Blues
Suspense
Jan-2002
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, ...
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Pagan Babies
Suspense
Sep-2000
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...
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Fire in the Hole
Suspense
2000
“[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...
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Be Cool
Action Adventure
Feb-1999
Chili Palmer - 2
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...
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Freaky Deaky
Suspense
May-1998
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...
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Cuba Libre
Suspense
Jan-1998
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 ...
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Out of Sight
Suspense
Aug-1996
Jack Foley - 1
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...
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Karen Makes Out
Suspense
1996
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....
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Riding the Rap
Mystery
May-1995
Raylan Givens - 2
Wicked and irresistible.Elmore Leonard is a literary genius. New York Times Book Review Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified ), he starred in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap...
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Pronto
Mystery
Sep-1993
Raylan Givens - 1
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...
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Rum Punch
Suspense
Jul-1992
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...
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Gold Coast
Suspense
Sep-1990
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...
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Get Shorty
Action Adventure
Jul-1990
Chili Palmer - 1
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...
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Killshot
Suspense
Apr-1989
“[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...
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Touch
Suspense
1987
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...
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Bandits
Suspense
Jan-1987
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...
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Glitz
Suspense
Mar-1986
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...
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LaBrava
Suspense
1983
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...
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Stick
Suspense
1983
A little beauty of a story.A hot, fast read with pungent characters. Los Angeles Times A slam-bang, no-bull action thrillerand nobody but nobody writes better dialogue. New York Daily News It's an established fact: Elmore Leonard is the uncon...
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Cat Chaser
Suspense
1982
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...
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The Tonto Woman
Historical
1982
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...
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Split Images
Suspense
1981
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...
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City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
Suspense
Sep-1980
“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...
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The Switch
Suspense
1978
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...
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Unknown Man #89
Private Investigator
May-1977
Frank Ryan - 2
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...
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Swag / Ryan's Rules
Private Investigator
Mar-1976
Frank Ryan - 1
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....
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52 Pick-Up
Suspense
1974
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...
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Mr. Majestyk
Suspense
1974
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...
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Forty Lashes Less One
Historical
1972
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...
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Valdez is Coming
Historical
1970
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...
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The Big Bounce
Suspense
1969
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...
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The Moonshine War
Suspense
1969
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 ...
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Hombre
Historical
1961
“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...
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Last Stand at Saber River
Historical
1959
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...
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The Kid
Historical
1956
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 ...
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Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories
Historical
1956
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...
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3:10 to Yuma
Historical
1953
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man...
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Blood Money
Historical
1953
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-trad...
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The Bounty Hunters
Historical
1953
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...
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Long Night
Historical
1953
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...
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Trail of the Apache
Historical
1951
Destiny, restlessness, and greed moved the white man west, into lands occupied for centuries by a proud and noble people: Arapahoe, Navajo, Apache, Sioux. The bitter misunderstandings and brutal clashes of cultures that resulted ultimately shaped the...
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