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Title: Lesser Leonard
Review: I am an avid Elmore Leonard fan and have lost count of the number of books of his that I have read. Some of them rank with the best crime fiction ever written. However, this is not one of them. In fact, this is the first one I have read that is actually bad. The main problem is the very thin plot, which Leonard all too frequently compensates for with flashbacks to the character's earlier life, which have nothing whatever to do with the plot. It is obvious that he does this just to fill space and stretch this short story out to book length.That having been said, I must say that I liked the book's ending. It was surprising and abrupt. But this book is only for Dutch-ophiles who may be curious to see what the master's early work was like.
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