Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories

✍ Scribed by Leonard, Elmore

• Book ID: 108121619
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062364920

✦ Synopsis

A highly entertaining collection of never-before-seen stories and several previously published pieces from the bestselling master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard

Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens of bestselling books--many adapted for the big screen--as well as a master of short fiction. A superb stylist whose crisp, tight prose crackles with trademark wit and sharp dialogue, Leonard remains the standard for popular fiction and a literary model for writers of every genre.

Marked by his unmistakable humor and grit, the stories in this collection--produced early in his career, when he was making his name particularly with westerns--reveal a writer in transition. In these tales Leonard explores new voices and locations, from the bars of small border towns in New Mexico to the seedy clubs of Detroit, from a film set in Hollywood where a struggling...