When the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories by Elmore Leonard
Books by Elmore Leonard
The Bounty Hunters
The Law at Randado
Escape from Five Shadows
Last Stand at Saber River
Hombre
The Big Bounce
The Moonshine War
Valdez Is Coming
Forty Lashes Less One
Mr. Majestyk
52 Pickup
Swag
Unknown Man #89
The Hunted
The Switch
Gunsights
Gold Coast
City Primeval
Split Images
Cat Chaster
Stick
LaBrava
Glitz
Bandits
Touch
Freaky Deaky
Killshot
Get Shorty
Maximum Bob
Rum Punch
Pronto
Riding the Rap
Out of Sight
Cuba Libre
The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories
Be Cool
Pagan Babies
Tishomingo Blues
Credits
Designed by Shubhani Sarkar
Designed photograph by Anton Vengo/SuperStock
The following stories were originally published in other works: “Sparks” in Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, in 1999 by Delacorte Press; “Hanging Out at the Buena Vista” in USA Weekend, June 13, 1999; “Chickasaw Charlie Hoke” in Murderers’ Row: Baseball Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler, in 2001 by New Millennium Press; “Fire in the Hole” as an e-book in 2001 by Contentville Press; “Karen Makes Out” in Murder for Love, edited by Otto Penzler, in 1996 by Delacorte Press; “Hurrah for Capt. Early” in New Trails: Twenty-three Original Stories from Western Writers of America, edited by John Jakes and Martin H. Greenberg, introduction by John Jakes, in 1994 by Doubleday; “The Tonto Woman” in Roundup: An Anthology of Great Stories by the Western Writers of America, edited by Stephen Overholser, in 1982 by Doubleday.
Copyright
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE. Copyright © 2002 by Elmore Leonard, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
“If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It.” Copyright © 2001 by Elmore Leonard, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Originally published in The New York Times, July 16, 2001.
“Martin Amis Interviews ‘The Dickens of Detroit’”: Commentary by Martin Amis is copyright © 1998 by Martin Amis. Commentary by Elmore Leonard is copyright © 1998 by Elmore Leonard, Inc. Both texts reprinted with permission. From their conversation at The Writers’ Guild Theatre, Beverly Hills, January 23, 1998. Sponsored by Writers Bloc; Andrea Grossman, Founder.
EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2002 ISBN: 9780061808548
Print edition first published in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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