A review by jlansner
Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories by Elmore Leonard

3.0

There's a reason these stories were never published. The collection starts out bad -- the opening story, "One, Horizontal" reads like a teenager trying to write a pulp crime story -- and advances through a bunch of mediocre entries before arriving at a few stories that would feel like lesser entries in a regular Leonard collection. It's interesting to see Leonard developing his voice and style, but unless you're a hard-core fan, you should skip this book.