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John Archibald Dortmunder is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake. He is the protagonist of 14 novels and 11 short stories published between 1970 and 2009. He first appeared in the novel The Hot Rock, published in 1970. Westlake originally intended The Hot Rock to feature his Parker character and to publish it under his Richard ...
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (1993) Signature. Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres.
Jimmy the Kid (1974) by Donald E. Westlake — This novel in Westlake's John Dortmunder series features the gang planning a caper based on a Parker novel they have. Chapters alternate between Parker committing a kidnapping (in the otherwise unavailable novel Child Heist ) and the Dortmunder gang screwing it up as they try to imitate Parker.
Alan Grofield. Alan Grofield is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake. He is the main protagonist of four of the 28 novels Westlake has written under the pseudonym Richard Stark, and a supporting character in an additional four. Grofield's first appearance was in the novel The Score, which was published in 1964.
Synopsis. Parker —penniless, shabbily dressed—walks across the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan, single-mindedly bent on payback. A quick series of cons and identity theft allows him to acquire a false name, a change of clothes, and a small amount of money. He first tracks down his wife Lynn, unsure if he'll kill her for betraying ...
The Man with the Getaway Face. First edition (1963), with cover art by Harry Bennett. The Man with the Getaway Face (1963) is a crime thriller novel, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark and published by Pocket Books. It was also published under the title The Steel Hit. It is the second of the Parker novels.
Darwyn Cooke. (Donald E. Westlake) Artists. Darwyn Cooke. ISBN. 978-1600104930. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter is a 2009 graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke, an adaptation of the first Parker novel The Hunter written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
978-0857683458. Memory is a thriller novel by American writer Donald E. Westlake, published posthumously in April 2010. [ 2][ 4] The novel was written in 1963 and was shopped to publishers by Westlake's then-agent, Scott Meredith, but none of them bought it despite editors praising the novel. [ 5] In the late 1970s, Westlake's agent, Henry ...