Crime novelist Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty, Maximum Bob and Out of Sight, has died at the age of 87.

A statement on his website said Elmore Leonard died on Tuesday morning “surrounded by his loving family”.

Elmore Leonard is the author of 45 crime novels

The author of 45 novels, Elmore Leonard had been in the process of writing his 46th.

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