Killshot (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elmore Leonard
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Michigan and Missouri
- Principal Characters: Armand (blackbird) Degas, Richie Nix, Wayne Coulson, Carmen Coulson, Donna Mulry, Lenore, Ferris Britton
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Psychology or psychologists, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, Organized crime, Loneliness, Real estate
- Locales: Michigan, Missouri
Elmore Leonard began his literary career as an author of Westerns and switched to crime fiction when interest in cowboys and Indians began to decline in the late 1960’s. It is extremely rare for an author of “genre” or “category” novels to receive such widespread and unanimous critical acclaim. Staid periodicals which normally exile reviews of crime novels to the back pages, if they deign to recognize them at all, wax enthusiastic whenever a new book by Leonard appears. He is one of those rare writers—others include Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Georges...
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