When the Woman Come out to Dance By Elmore Leonard

This is a very good entertaining short story. The mystery of Lourdes’s husband, Mr. Zimmer, is revealed at the end of the story. And at the same time it is a surprise for the reader to know how and who killed the strip dancer’s husband, Mr. Mahmood.

It is well developed and full of intriguing scenes for men like “nude, naked, strip, dancer.” The relation between Lourdes and Mrs. Mahmood is skillfully described when Lourdes begins to smoke her master’s cigarette. And the last line, “We having a party for you, Ginger.” Lourdes’s position has become equal to Mrs. Mahmood’s by calling her name.