- Murder in fiction, Gangsters in fiction, Fiction, Gangsters
Dennis Lenahan is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit -- Dixie style.
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Classical in form, grave, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Viking, HarperLargePrint, Clipper
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782743613938
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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