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Library of America volume 255
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"Inventor of a fast, funny, sharp, and tough style uniquely his own, Elmore Leonard is widely considered America's greatest modern crime writer. With this volume collecting the four Detroit novels that established his reputation, The Library of America inaugurates a three-volume edition of Leonard's greatest work, selected in consultation with the author shortly before his death. Fifty-Two Pickup is an insidiously brutal book about an adulterous businessman...
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Library of America volume 279
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"The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s). Each reflects Macdonald's enduring concern with...
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Library of America volume 280
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English
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Four hardboiled novels from America's modern master of crime fiction, edited by Leonard's long-term employee, researcher and friend.
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Library of America volume 264
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English
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"Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, praised by Eudora Welty as "a more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were," Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel a new realism and psychological depth and a unique gift for intricately involving mystery narratives. For his centennial, The Library of America inaugurates its Macdonald edition with four...
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Library of America volume 269
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English
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These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Library of America volume 268
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English
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Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
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