The Complete Works
Novels
First Editions
The Bounty Hunters. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1953. |
The Law at Randado. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1954. |
Escape from Five Shadows. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956. |
Last Stand at Saber River. New York : Dell, 1959. |
Hombre. New York : Ballantine Books, 1961. |
The Big Bounce. Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications, 1969. |
The Moonshine War. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969. |
Valdez is Coming. Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications, 1970. |
Forty Lashes Less One. New York : Bantam Books, 1972. |
Mr. Majestyk. New York : Dell, 1974. |
Fifty-Two Pickup. New York : Delacorte Press, 1974. |
Swag. New York : Delacorte Press, 1976. |
Unknown Man No. 89. New York : Delacorte Press, 1977. |
The Hunted. New York : Dell, 1977. |
The Switch. New York : Bantam Books, 1978. |
Gunsights. New York : Bantam Books, 1979. |
City Primeval. New York : Arbor House, 1980. |
Gold Coast. New York : Bantam Books, 1980. |
Split Images. New York : Arbor House, 1981. |
Cat Chaser. New York : Arbor House, 1982. |
Stick. New York : Arbor House, 1983. |
LaBrava.New York : Arbor House, 1983. |
Glitz. New York : Arbor House, 1985. |
Bandits. New York : Arbor House, 1987. |
Touch. New York : Arbor House, 1987. |
Freaky Deaky. New York : Arbor House, 1988. |
Killshot. New York : Arbor House, 1989. |
Get Shorty. New York : Delacorte Press, 1990. |
Maximum Bob. New York : Delacorte Press, 1991. |
Rum Punch. New York : Delacorte Press, 1992. |
Pronto. New York : Delacorte Press, 1993. |
Riding the Rap. New York : Delacorte Press, 1995. |
Out of Sight. New York : Delacorte Press, 1996. |
Cuba Libre. New York : Delacorte Press, 1998. |
Be Cool. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. |
Pagan Babies. New York : Delacorte Press, 2000. |
Tishomingo Blues. New York : William Morrow, 2002. |
Mr. Paradise. New York : William Morrow, 2004. |
A Coyote’s In the House. New York : William Morrow, 2004. |
The Hot Kid. New York : William Morrow, 2005. |
Comfort to the Enemy. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. |
Up in Honey’s Room. New York : William Morrow, 2007. |
Road Dogs. New York : William Morrow, 2009. |
Djibouti. New York : William Morrow, 2010. |
Raylan. New York : William Morrow, 2011. |
Comfort to the Enemy (Serial Novel)
“The Hanging of Willi Martz,” The New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Shemane’s Lincoln Zephyr,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Is Carl Still the Hot Kid?,” The New York Tiimes Sunday Magazine. |
“Jurgen Schrenk, Escape Artist,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Carl and Louly in Love” New York Times Sunday Magazine, |
“Gary Marion, Ex-Bull Rider.” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Joe Tanzi, Fugitive,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Tutti and Frankie Bones, ” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Teddy Ritz, White Slaver,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Gunnery Sgt. Louise Webster,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“It’s Up to You, Carl,”New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Jurgen and Otto on the Lam,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Shootout at Shemane’s,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
“Are You Going After Jurgen?,” New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
Novel Collections
Dutch Treat. New York : Arbor House, 1985. |
Double Dutch Treat. New York : Arbor House, 1986. |
Stories
Collections
The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998 |
When the Women Come Out to Dance. New York ; William Morrow; 2002 |
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. William Morrow, New York, 2004 |
First Appearance
“Trail of the Apache.” Argosy, December, 1951. |
“Apache Medicine.” Dime Western Magazine, May, 1952. |
“You Never See Apaches….” Dime Western Magazine, September, 1952. |
“Red Hell Hits Canyon Diablo.” 10 Story Western Magazine, October 1952. |
“The Colonel’s Lady.” Zane Grey’s Western Magazine, November, 1952. |
“Law of the Hunted One.” Western Story Magazine, December, 1952. |
“Cavalry Boots.” Zane Grey’s Western Magazine, December 1952. |
“Under the Friar’s Ledge.” Dime Western Magazine, January, 1953. |
“The Rustlers.” Zane Grey’s Western Magazine, February 1953. |
“Three-Ten to Yuma.” Dime Western Magazine, March, 1953. |
“The Big Hunt.” Western Story Magazine, April 1953. |
“Long Night.” Zane Grey’s Western Magazine, May, 1953. |
“The Boy Who Smiled.” Gunsmoke, June, 1953. |
“The Hard Way.” Zane Grey’s Western Magazine, August, 1953. |
“The Last Shot.” Fifteen Western Tales, September, 1953. |
“Blood Money.” Western Story Magazine, October 1953. |
“Trouble at Rindo’s Station.” Argosy, October 1953. |
“Saint with a Six-Gun.” Argosy, October, 1954. |
“The Captives.” Argosy, February, 1955. |
“No Man’s Guns.” Western Story Roundup, August 1955. |
“The Rancher’s Lady.” Western Magazine, September 1955. |
“Jugged.” Western Magazine, December 1955. |
“Moment of Vengeance.” Saturday Evening Post, April 21, 1956. |
“Man with the Iron Arm.” Complete Western Book, September, 1956. |
“The Longest Day of his Life.” Western Novel and Short Stories, October, 1956. |
“The Nagual.” 2-Gun Western, November, 1956. |
“The Kid.” Western Short Stories, December 1956. |
“The Treasure of Mungo’s Landing.” True Adventures, June, 1958. |
“The Bull Ring at Blisston.” Short Stories For Men Magazine, August, 1959. |
“Only Good Ones.” Western Roundup, Nye, Nelson, ed. New York : Macmillan, 1961. |
“The Tonto Woman.” Roundup, Overholser, Stephen, ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982. |
“Hurrah for Captain Early.” New Trails, Jakes, John and Greenber, Martin H., ed. New York : Doubleday, 1994. |
“Karen Makes Out.” Murder for Love, Penzler, Otto, ed. New York : Delacorte Press, |
“The Odyssey.” Chapter in Naked Came the Manatee, New York : Putnam, 1996. |
“Sparks.” Murder and Obsession, Penzler, Otto, ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. |
“Hanging Out at the Buena Vista.” USA Weekend, 1999 Summer Fiction Issue, June 13, 1999. |
Fire in the Hole. Contentville Press, 2001 |
“Chickasaw Charlie Hoke.” Murderer’s Row, Penzler, Otto ed. Beverly Hills, Calif. : New Millennium Press, 2001. |
“When the Women Come Out to Dance.” In the short story collection, When the Women Come Out to Dance, New York : William Morrow, 2002 |
“Showdown at Checotah.” McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, New York : Vintage Press, 2003. |
“Louly and Pretty Boy.” Dangerous Women, Penzler, Otto ed. New York : Mysterious Press, 2005. |
“Chick Killer.” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #39. 2011 |
Uncollected
“The Bull Ring at Blisston.” Short Stories For Men Magazine, August, 1959. |
Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction Book
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, illustrations by Joe Ciardiello. New York : William Morrow & Company, 2007. |
Commentary on Own Work
“Commentary on LaBrava.” The New Black Mask Quarterly, Number 2. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. A Harvest/HBJ Book, 1985. |
Touch. New York : Arbor House, 1987. Introduction |
The Big Bounce, (Hardcover reprint.) New York : The Armchair Detective Library, 1989. |
Unknown Man No. 89 . (Hardcover reprint.) New York : The Armchair Detective Library, 1993. |
“Elmore Leonard, Criminal Conversations,” The Paris Review, No. 164, Winter 2002-2003 |
Book Introductions
Irwin Faust, Willy Remembers. New York : Arbor House, 1983. |
H. N. Swanson, Sprinkled with Ruby Dust. New York : Warner Books, 1989. Introduction by Elmore Leonard. |
Balthazar Korab. Detroit: The Renaissance City. Charlottesville, Va : Spradlin & Associates, 1989. |
George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Owl Books; September 2000 |
H. C. Heinz. The Professional. (Reprint.) Da Capo Press, 2001. Introduction by Elmore Leonard. |
Eli Zaret. ‘84: The Last of the Great Tigers, Untold Stories From an Amazing Season. Foreword by Elmore Leonard. South Boardman, MI : Crofton Creek Press, 2003. |
Charles Willeford, Miami Blues (Reprint.) New York: Knopf, 2004. |
Walter Mirisch. I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History. Madison, Wisconsin :University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Introduction by Elmore Leonard. |
Julie Reyes Taubman, Detroit: 138 Square Miles. Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, 2011 |
Peter Leonard, Voices of the Dead, The Story Plant, 2012 Introduction by Elmore Leonard |
Book Reviews
“Diamond in the Booth.” The New York Times. April 7, 1991. Review of Ernie Harwell’s Diamond Gems. Ann Arbor, Mich : Momentum Books, 1991. |
“All the Lonely People.” The Washington Post, January 31, 1993. Review of Fraud by Anita Brookner. New York : Random House 1993. |
“Rent-a-Cop and Robbers.” The Washington Post , April 1983. Review of Dancing Bear by James Crumley. New York : Random House 1983. |
“Busting the Tijuana Pirates.” The New York Times Book Review, February 5, 1984. Review of Lines and Shadows by Joseph Wambuagh. New York : William Morrow & Co, 1984. |
Essays
“Quitting.” A chapter in The Courage to Change. edited by Dennis Wholey. New York : |
“On Richard Bissell.” A chapter in Rediscoveries II. New York : Carroll & Graf, 1988. |
“Everyman: Great characters but where’s the love interest?” The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999. |
“McHeard Is The Word. The Grey Area: Truth as Entertainment.” Forbes Magazine, Oct. 2, 2000. |
“Hail Mary, Spirituality: With or Without Prayer” The New York Times, May 7, 2000. |
“Imagine Pitching this in Hollywood” The New York Times, April 8, 2001. |
“Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle.” The New York Times, 7/16/2001. |
“Thank God for Robert Johnson.” Chapter in Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey, ed. by Peter Guralnick. Amistad Press, 2003. |
For the Love of Books. New York : Berkeley Books, 2000. Contribution by Elmore Leonard. |
“Elmore Leonard. ” A section in Writers Dreaming by Naomi Epel. New York : Carol Southern Books, 1993. |
“For Swanie, Bless His Heart.” Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1991. |
“Hollywood and Me.” The Guardian, April 18, 1997. |
“My Car Story.” Esquire, Oct. 1998. |
BookForum: Reflections (on the topic of fiction into film) (2007) |
Wild Kingdom - Windows On The World |
“A Taste for Life’s Seamy Side.” A conversation with Alvin P. Sanoff. U.S. News & World Report, March 9, 1987. |
“A Life of Many Hues, Memories of John D. MacDonald.” St. Petersburg (Florida) Times. Jan 4, 1987. |
“What Elmore Leonard Does.” Chapter in Who’s Writing This? Notations on the AuthoriaI With Self Portraits. Dan Halpern, Ed. Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1995. |
“Richard Bissell.” For the Love of Books, 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most. Ronald B. Shwartz, ed. New York Grosset/Putnam, 1999. |
Snoopy’s Guide To Writing Life, Writers Digest Books, 2004 |
“How I Write.” Gentlemen’s Quarterly, September 2000. |
“The Lost Art of Writing by Hand.” Esquire, Feb. 2002. |
“Making It Up As I Go Along.” AARP Magazine, July/August 2009. |
“Crime Does Pay.” Life Magazine, November 1990. |
“Reflections on the Topic of Fiction into Film.” BookForum, June, July, August, 2007. |
“I Owe It All To Raylan,” TV Guide, 2010 |
On Crime
“Impressions of Murder.” The Detroit News Sunday Magazine, 1978. |
“Cutting Deals.” A Man’s Word.” Esquire, June 1986. |
Biography
David Geherin, Elmore Leonard (Literature and Life Series), New York : Continuum, 1989. |
Paul Challen , Get Dutch , Toronto: ECW Press, 2000 |
James E. Devlin, Elmore Leonard (Twayne Author Series), New York : Twayne Publishers, 1999. |
Research
Gregg Sutter, “Research and the Elmore Leonard Novel Part 1,” Armchair Detective, 1986 |
Gregg Sutter, “Research and the Elmore Leonard Novel Part 2”, Armchair Detective, 1986 |
Other
Elmore Leonard, Notebooks, Northridge, CA : Lord John Press, 1991 |
Elmore Leonard: A Reader’s Checklist and Reference Guide, CheckerBee Publishing, 1999 |
Film and TV
Currently on TV
Justified, FX Networks, 2010-2012 |
Film
3:10 to Yuma. Dir. Delmer Daves. Columbia Pictures, 1957. |
The Tall T. Dir. Budd Boetticher. Columbia Pictures, 1957. |
Hombre. Dir. Martin Ritt. 20th Century Fox, 1967. |
The Big Bounce. Dir. Alex March. Warner Bros., 1969. |
The Moonshine War. Dir. Richard Quine. Filmway Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970. |
Valdez is Coming. Dir. Edwin Sherin. United Artists, 1971. |
Joe Kidd. Dir. John Sturgis. The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. 1972. |
Mr. Majestyk. Dir. Richard Fleischer. The Mirisch Company, 1974. |
Stick. Dir. Burt Reynolds. Universal Pictures, 1985. |
52 Pickup. Dir. John Frankenheimer. Cannon Group, 1986. |
The Rosary Murders. Dir. Fred Walton. First Take, Rosary Take One, 1987. |
Cat Chaser. Dir. Abel Ferrara. Vestron Pictures, 1989. |
Get Shorty. Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld. MGM / Jersey Films, 1995. |
Touch. Dir. Paul Schrader. Lumiere International/United Artists, 1997. |
Jackie Brown. Dir. Quentin Tarantino. Miramax Films, 1997. |
Out of Sight. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Universal Pictures and Jersey Films, 1998. |
The Big Bounce (II). Dir. George Armitage. Warner Bros, 2004. |
Be Cool, Dir. F. Gary Gray. MGM, Jersey Films, Double Feature, 2005. |
3:10 to Yuma. Dir. James Mangold, Lionsgate, 2007 |
Killshot. Dir. John Madden. The Weinstein Company, 2009. |
Short Films
The Tonto Woman. Dir. Daniel Barber, Knucklehead Productions, 2007. |
Sparks. Dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt , 2008. |
TV Movie
Moment of Vengeance. (TV) Dir. Alvin Ganzer. Meridian Productions / CBS - Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars, 9/28/1956. |
High Noon, Part II. (TV) Dir. Jerry Jameson. Charles Fries Productions, 1980. |
Desperados. (TV) Dir. Virgil W. Vogel. MacArthur. Universal TV, 1987. |
Glitz |
Border Shootout. Dir. Chris McIntyre, Turner Pictures, |
Split Images. Dir. Sheldon Larry. Zev Braun, 1992. |
Last Stand at Saber River. Turner Network Television, 1997. |
Pronto. (TV) Dir. Jim McBride. Showtime Pictures, 1997. |
Elmore Leonard’s Gold Coast. Dir. Peter Weller Showtime Pictures, 1997. |
TV Series
Maximum Bob. Prod. Barry Sonnenfeld. Warner Bros. Television, 1998. |
Karen Sisco. Prod. Bob Brush. ABC Television, Universal Network Television, 2003. |
Justified, FX Networks, 2010-2012 |
Original Screenplays
The Moonshine War. Dir. Richard Quine. Filmway Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970. |
Joe Kidd. Dir. John Sturgis. The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. 1972. |
Mr. Majestyk. Dir. Richard Fleischer. The Mirisch Company, 1974. |
High Noon, Part II. (TV) Dir. Jerry Jameson. Charles Fries Productions, 1980. |
Stick. Dir. Burt Reynolds. Universal Pictures, 1985. |
52 Pickup. Dir. John Frankenheimer. Cannon Group, 1986. |
Desperados. (TV) Dir. Virgil W. Vogel. MacArthur. Universal TV, 1987. |
The Rosary Murders. Dir. Fred Walton. First Take, Rosary Take One, 1987. |
Cat Chaser. Dir. Abel Ferrara. Vestron Pictures, 1989. |



