Tishomingo Blues CD

One of his best Cheryl Richmond Going back through my library of Elmore Leonard books -- picking out old favorites to read. Can't believe he's gone. What a legacy of material he's left for us to enjoy. And this is one of my personal favorites. Funny. Fast. Clever. Left me wanting more of Dennis and Robert, that's for sure.. Dennis Dean said Interesting characters and premise. Sometimes a bit hard to follow.. Good character development. Interesting premise, as always with Leonard. Needed some editing. Leonard intersperses narrative with the thoughts of his characters without benefit of quotes or attribution. Not a huge issue, just annoying. ( I don't care how popular an author is, I don't learn by osmosis.). Jimm Budd said Meet the crowd. More than half-way though this gem, I decided I better go back to the beginning and start all over. All the better. More enjoymet for every dollar spent. But the reader almost needs a scorecard. Every character fascinates, nasty as most of them are. I really feel that I came to know all of them, but would invite very few to come home with me for dinner.

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.”—Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque ride featuring gamblers, mobsters, murderers, high divers, and Civil War re-enactors that the New York Times Book Review calls, “Leonard’s best work since Get Shorty.” Sparkling with trademark “Dutch” Leonard dialogue so sharp it could cut you, Tishomingo Blues is classic mystery, mayhem, and gritty noir fun from “the coolest, hottest thriller writer in America” (Chicago Tribune).

This is a rib-tickler in the Carl Hiaasen/Dave Barry tradition rather than the kind of thriller Leonard wrote before Hollywood discovered him. Add a cooler-than-thou con artist from Detroit who's out to take over the Dixie mafia's lucrative Gulf Coast drug business. Readers will be casting the inevitable movie in their heads (Samuel L. --Jane Adams. And as usual, he carries it off with style, wit, and brio. Take a high diver who witnesses a murder from his perch 80 feet above a Mississippi casino. Jackson is a lock for Robert, who glides into town in a flashy Jag and gets the action going) as they chuckle their way to the last hilarious page. As the author himself explains, his intent was to entertain himself by gathering an odd assortment of characters, building a story as they bump heads, and seeing w