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Sunday, September 20, 2015

By Judy Rose, Special to the Detroit Free Press

Nicotine stains are gone from the wall in the living room, where Elmore Leonard sat, smoked Virginia Slims and wrote for 25 years.

His yellow walls are now oyster gray; the carpet has been pulled up and the wood floor refinished. Designer-chosen sofas replaced his offbeat mix of antiques and memorabilia.

Beyond surface changes, though, the big sunny living room where Leonard spent most days is unaltered. So are the house’s other front rooms and the face it shows to the street.

But walk around back, and the house sprawls out with a 3,000-square-foot addition, one so big the pool had to be moved.

This is Elmore (Dutch) Leonard, Edition Two — a total re-do of the Bloomfield Township house where the writer lived from the late 1980s till his death two years ago. This second edition adds a lot to the first.

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