SOURCE: "Middle Class Hustlers," in New Republic, Vol. 192, No. 2, March 25, 1985, pp. 38-40.

In the following review, Morley offers a mixed assessment of Glitz.

You've heard about Elmore Leonard—probably sometime in the last ten days. After a long career of writing pulp Westerns and crime novels, he's hit it big with Glitz. The book, which follows Miami detective Vincent Mora to Atlantic City as he looks for the killer of a dumb, young Puerto Rican prostitute named Iris whom he once had a crush on, has made the Book of the Month Club and is said to be on its way to Hollywood. But the excitement isn't just hype. The critical measure of Leonard is also routinely high. His dialogue is edgy, hip, inarticulate; his plot twists are unnerving; his characters are as familiar and surprising as a new friend.

So why am I going to say bad...