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Black Leather Required
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Plot Summary of Black Leather Required
"Schow uses every color and tone on his palette in this collection of short fiction. Subtle scratching with fine lines and slam dunking you with broad strokes. Despicable though lovable characters, vivid settings and roller coaster plots. All written with a sure hand and humorous eye for detail."
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Plot
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is.... - criminal's rise in a crime organization
Crime Thriller Yes
Mostly a criminal POV story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric - obsessed - mentally ill - deluded - emotionally unstable - wild
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Main Adversary
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - deluded - wild - eccentric - mentally ill - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Setting
United States Yes
Desert? Yes
City? Yes
Small town? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths? - 8 or more
Unusual forms of death - boiling - frying (electrocuted) - eaten - diced - crushed - impaled - decapitated
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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