Fifty-two Pickup

…novels of the 1970s are Fifty-two Pickup (1974; adapted as the films The Ambassador [1984] and 52 Pick-Up [1986]), Swag (1976; also published as Ryan’s Rules), Unknown Man No. 89 (1977), and The Switch (1978; adapted as the film Life of Crime [2013]). Leonard’s subsequent novels include the Edgar Award-winning…