Elmore Leonard Collection Reveals A ‘Clever, Devious Mind’
''Mystery Guest'' contributor Michele Ross on the career of Elmore Leonard.
He was called “The Dickens of Detroit.”
Elmore Leonard, who died in 2013, had a career spanning decades. He wrote more than 40 novels and many stories and works of short fiction.
He was perhaps best known for his many works that had been made into films — “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight,” for example — and those featured on television, such as his book “Raylan,” which was the basis for the hit FX series “Justified.”
A new posthumous collection, “Charlie Martz and Other Stories,” includes 11 stories that have never been published and that were written early in his career.
As “City Lights” contributor Michele Ross explains, readers can see the beginnings of a clever, devious mind at work.
Leonard also was famous for his “10 rules of writing,” which Ross says are “brilliant, they’re true, and I personally think the world of fiction would be a better place if more writers followed them.”
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