The 5 dumbest of Elmore Leonard’s many, many dumb criminals

The great Elmore Leonard specialized in dumb criminals who thought they were smart.

At Slate, Justin Peters came up with five of the dumbest baddies Leonard created, including:Richie Nix, Killshot. This tremendously stupid fellow, who wears a T-shirt reading “It’s Nice to be Nice” and harbors ambitions of robbing a bank in every state (except Alaska), is a motormouth psychopath who kills for no