- Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Criminals, fiction, Detroit (mich.), fiction
The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot.
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Classical in form, cool, effortless and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing, Dell, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780753819647
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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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