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...Linda had a great showing against Sybil," Harvard Coach Mora Costin Scalise said. "All of our sprinters are broken down after the Christmas training trip [to Palm Springs] and the practices during Reading Period. I think that Linda will beat Sybil in the Easterns...
...famous and the powerful, and in his office in New York City there are prominently displayed pictures of himself with Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Pope Paul VI. At Christmas in Marbella, a gaggle of lesser European royalty partook of "A.K.'s" hospitality. Among them was Count Jaime de Mora y Aragon, the brother of the Queen of Belgium, a rakish fellow with a monocle and a waxed mustache who comes across as a blue-blooded Salvador Dali...
Glitz, Leonard's 25th novel, lives up to its title. The settings are San Juan and Atlantic City ("It's like you're in a hotel in Star Trek"), and its characters operate low to the ground and leave slimy trails. One of them is after Mora, 41, a Miami policeman convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle...
...guys require additional work, partly because most readers cannot readily identify with gutter smarts but mostly because embellishing evil is fun. Teddy Magyk, the creep who stalks Mora from the Caribbean to the Jersey shore, lives with his mother in Margate, in a house done up in a parrot motif. One of his specialties is robbing and raping elderly women. He is between jail sentences and is bent on killing his arresting officer. Who is, of course, Lieut. Mora...
Glitz departs from the usual tense stalker plot in a number of ways. Teddy's incidental murders are described with a casualness that underscores his sickening emotional vacuum. For some doubtful reason, Mora treats Magyk's threat nonchalantly even though he acknowledges that psychopaths are unpredictable and extremely dangerous. But then, Leonard always seems more interested in sociology than suspense. His supporting cast springs from that circle where commerce, show business and crime are hard to separate. Casino Manager Jackie Garbo likes to impress visitors with his autographed celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born...