Donald E. Westlake, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-718-6
Every Westlake book surprises in a different way, from the hilarious Dortmunder series (Bad News, etc.) to the dark, ominous novels of suspense (The Ax, etc.), and this latest comic caper is no exception. Francis Xavier Meehan, one of Westlake's
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Donald E. Westlake. Hard Case Crime, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-85768-409-7
MWA Grand Master Westlake (1933–2008) shows his skill and versatility as an author in this posthumous crime novel. In 1977, the radical fervor that grew through the 1960s and early 1970s, fueled by the struggle for civil rights and the Vietnam War,...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Severn House Publishers $27.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6096-5
Donald E. Westlake fans will welcome the reissue of the master mystery author's 1967 SF novel, Anarchaos. First published as a mass market paperback under the pseudonym Curt Clark, it chronicles the quest of a lone spacefarer to avenge his ...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (454p) ISBN 978-0-89296-534-2
Yet another variation on the invisible-man notion doesn't sound like a promising prospect, but if any author can wring some fresh fun out of it, Westlake's the one. He doesn't fail. Freddie Noon is a sharp, likable burglar whose mistake is to break...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-89296-532-8
In Trust Me on This , his comedy mystery published in 1988, Westlake and the reader both had a great deal of fun with the scurrilous goings-on at a supermarket tabloid whose models are on view every day at--well, supermarkets. This time the Weekly...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-89296-468-0
A bored God sends the angel Ananayel to earth to ``announce, and to effect, the end of the World'' in Westlake's first venture into science fiction. Fed up with humanity, the Supreme Being wants the earth done with once and for all, but helc per...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-89296-177-1
Prolific Westlake displays yet again the originality that won him an Edgar Award for God Save the Mark and praise for books ranging from deadly thrillers through boffo comics. This novel is organized as a series of film flashbacks and forwards, with
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Forge $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0918-1
Forge, together with the Mystery Writers of America, launches a reprint series of Edgar winners with Donald E. Westlake's masterful tale of a hapless chump who's every con man's favorite patsy, God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion (19
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-89296-178-8
Westlake here brings back decent, smart and unlucky John Dortmunder for a seventh adventure. After a typically unrewarding night of attempted burglary, Dortmunder comes home to find ex-cellmate Tom Jimson ensconced in the living room. Jimson, given...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $16.45 (293p) ISBN 978-0-89296-176-4
Versatile Westlake delivers another offbeat story about picaresque types in his inimitably satiric, irresistible style. The action jets forward from the minute Sara Joslyn notices a corpse on the way to her new job as a reporter for the Weekly...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $16.99 (183p) ISBN 978-0-446-69302-8
Mystery NOTES Donald E. Westlake's irresistible Thieves' Dozen collects all 10 tales of his hapless thief John Dortmunder, most of which appeared in Playboy. The author provides an amusing introduction as well as an 11th tale, original to this...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Forge $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0919-8
Forge, together with the Mystery Writers of America, launches a reprint series of Edgar winners with Donald E. Westlake's masterful tale of a hapless chump who's every con man's favorite patsy, God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion (19
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-588-5
This is a very savvy tale of two writers, instantly recognizable to anyone in the publishing world. Bryce Proctorr is a megaseller who gets million-dollar deals; Wayne Prentice, after a promising start, has fallen into the dread midlist, where his...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-89296-586-1
John Dortmunder, the taciturn con man who is the hero of Westlake's funniest series of caper novels, is someone perfectly capable of nursing a grievance. When billionaire hotshot Max Fairbanks, who has caught Dortmunder burgling his Long Island...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $30 (273p) ISBN 978-0-89296-587-8
Westlake is a consummate pro who can deliver both the cheerful zaniness of the Dortmunder novels and thoroughly convincing noir. The Ax is one of his darkest efforts, a mesmerizing chiller. It takes a familiar plight--Burke Devore, a middle-level...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-89296-469-7
Westlake fans (who should comprise the entire American reading public) will cheer the hilarious return of Manhattan con man John Dortmunder and his friends from their comic misadventures upstate in Drowned Hopes . The caper here turns on the femur...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author Mysterious Press $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-89296-299-0
The author of original and literate suspense novels, Westlake excels also at creating mystery adventures in science-fiction settings. The selections in this volume, nine short stories and a book-length story, Anarchaos , originally appeared in SF...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Hard Case Crime $7.99 (366p) ISBN 978-0-8439-6375-5
The career of late MWA Grand Master Westlake (1933–2009) spans 50 years with the appearance of this elegant, melancholy novel, written in the 1960s and never before published. Actor Paul Cole is on tour when he sleeps with the wrong married...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Grand Central $23.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-446-17860-0
The late Donald Westlake's final crime caper features his bungling crook, John Dortmunder.
Get Real
Donald E. Westlake
. Grand Central
, $23.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-17860-0
A reality-show company aptly titled Get Real recruits the...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8439-6114-0
Never before published, this fantastic and compelling hard-boiled mystery was written in 1971 by acclaimed science fiction author Zelazny (1937–1995), but only discovered after his death. The unlikely hero is Ovid Wiley, art thief turned...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Warner $24.99 (359p) ISBN 978-0-446-58240-7
In Westlake's diverting 13th John Dortmunder novel (after 2004's Watch Your Back!
), the hapless crook gets blackmailed into trying to pull off an impossible heist—stealing a gold chess set originally intended as a gift for the last...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-802-2
John Dortmunder, deadpan burglar extraordinaire, leads a cast of marvelously twisted supporting characters in his stellar 12th outing from MWA Grandmaster Westlake (after 2004's The Road to Ruin
). Arnie Albright, a fence so obnoxious his family
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Mysterious $25 (342p) ISBN 978-0-89296-801-5
In this boisterous 11th outing (after 2001's Bad News
) featuring John Dortmunder, Westlake's hapless crook and his gang decide to hire on as live-in staff to a wealthy corporate crook as a way to get access to, and ultimately steal, his...
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Donald E. Westlake, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-787-2
Prolific MWA Grand Master Westlake's latest novel has neither the engaging characters of his Dortmunder series nor the comic zing of his previous stand-alone, Put a Lid On It
(2002), but it does offer an entertaining answer to the timeless...
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Westlake fans will welcome the return, after a five-year hiatus, of luckless burglar John Dortmunder and his gang of lowlifes from the back room of the O.J. Bar and Grill. In this, perhaps the best Dortmunder novel so far, Andy Kelp, Tiny Bulcher...
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Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59606-303-7
In the 1960s, Block and the late Westlake (1933–2008), not yet individually established as two of the world's most superbly talented crime writers, collaborated on three erotic pulp novels: A Girl Called Honey, So Willing, and Sin Hellcat. One...
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Edited by Levi Stahl. Univ. of Chicago, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-226-12181-9
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald Westlake (1933–2008) didn’t have an inflated opinion of his own work, as suggested by several of the delightful and revealing selections chosen by editor Stahl. Speaking as Timothy J. Culver, one of his
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Donald E. Westlake, Author, Nicola Sheara, Read by Audio Partners $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-139-7
Mystery author Westlake's humorous 1994 parody of the country-music world seems doubly hilarious when spoken aloud by soap-opera and Broadway actress Nicola Sheara. Acting out the voices of a legion of overweight, RV-driving, fast-food-eating fans...
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