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Paul Davis: My Q&A with author C.M. Kushins Paul Davis November 20, 2025 November 19, 2025

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I’m an Elmore Leonard aficionado. I love the late, great crime writer’s novels, such as Get Shorty , City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and Raylan .

He never wrote a novel about Philadelphia, but there is a Philadelphia connection in Glitz , his novel about Atlantic City. His cop character Vincent Moro in Glitz goes up against “Frank the Ching” and “Ricky the Zit,” two South Philly wiseguys. Leonard, who liked to use local color, had Moro bribe a doorman with a cheesesteak. I got a kick out of that.

I met Elmore Leonard briefly in 2009 when he came to Philadelphia to promote his novel, Road D

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