- Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Mystery, Manuscripts
When a Detroit homicide cop takes a vacation, he looks for some place far away from murder and mayhem. But when Bryan Hurd lands in Palm Beach, he finds that a gun-collecting millionaire and a bitter ex-cop have already brought Motown murder to the Sunshine State.
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- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, Avon Books (Mm), Avon Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061185618
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“IN THE WINTER OF 1981 a multimillionaire by the name of Robinson Daniels shot a Haitian refugee who had broken into his home in Palm Beach.”
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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