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Mr. Paradise

Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. At Chloe's 84-year old boyfriend's house, they hang out one night. But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe...

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Main Author: Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013-
Other Authors: Forster, Robert, 1942- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2004.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Aged men > Crimes against > Fiction.
Police > Michigan > Detroit > Fiction.
Witnesses > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Michigan.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. At Chloe's 84-year old boyfriend's house, they hang out one night. But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs, and fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa, who now has another double homicide-- and this one with a beautiful, willful witness-- to add to his already heavy caseload.
Item Description: Compact discs.
Physical Description: 6 sound discs (7 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 1402574665
Author Notes: Elmore John Leonard, Jr. 10/11/25 -- 8/20/13 Elmore John Leonard, Jr., popularly known as mystery and western writer Elmore Leonard, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 11, 1925. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1946. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Detroit in 1950. After graduating, he wrote short stories and western novels as well as advertising and education film scripts. In 1967, he began to write full-time and received several awards including the 1977 Western Writers of America award and the 1984 Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award. His other works include Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rum Punch. Many of his works were adapted into movies.

Library of America recently announced plans to publish the first of a three-volume collection of his books beginning in the Fall of 2014. Leonard died on August 20, 2013 from complications of a stroke he had earlier. He was 87 years old.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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