SOURCE: "The Alligator Rings Twice," in New York Times, July 28, 1991.

In the following review, Gifford applauds Maximum Bob, and calls Leonard "the greatest living writer of crime fiction."

Elmore (Dutch) Leonard confirms with this, [Maximum Bob,] his 29th novel, his right to a prominent place in the American noir writers' hall of fame, along with Charles Willeford, Dan J. Marlowe, Jim Thompson, the Elliott Chaze of Black Wings Has My Angel and John D. MacDonald. The other Dutch Leonard, Emil, who was a pretty fair right-handed pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, and from whom Elmore appropriated his nickname, won 20 games in a season only once. This Dutch has accomplished the feat in his own ball park a solid baker's dozen times or more, which is a monster of a career, better than Emil's. (Emil, in the end, won only 10 games more...