- Mystery, Fiction, Detroit (mich.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim.
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Classical in form, grave, relentless and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, Avon Books, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- French, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780816139484
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“ONE OF THE valet parking attendants at Hazel Park Racecourse would remember the judge leaving sometime after the ninth race, about 1:00 A.M., and fill in the first part of what happened.”
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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