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As he once told an interviewer, "I think that good dialogue is made up to sound realistic, but it isn't that real at all. That would bore you to death."
Beginning in the 1950s, "Dutch" Leonard wrote short stories and Westerns, but fairly early on, he switched to crime novels - thrillers, mysteries, suspense, call 'em as you see 'em - and hasn't slowed down since.
