Author: donaldewestlake
A desperate man is trying to find his partner’s killer by means of astrology, and resist as he may, ex-cop Mitch Tobin is destined to help him do it. Disgraced ex-cop Mitch Tobin is digging in his basement when he meets Ronald Cornell. A gay man from downtown Brooklyn whose partner was recently murdered, Cornell wants Tobin’s assistance in an investigation that the NYPD has declared hopeless. … hopeless. Tobin sympathizes–he once lost a partner of his own, a fellow cop whose death he was partially responsible for–and asks how he can help. Cornell has a list of six suspects,…
From an Edgar Grand Master: When a local bank temporarily sets up shop in a mobile home, con man John Dortmunder formulates a plan to steal the whole thing! “Everyone who’s read Donald Westlake knows he’s the funniest man in the world” (The Washington Post).
This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir “will keep readers laughing” (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they … bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally free, he heads straight for John Dortmunder’s house. Long ago, Tom buried $700,000, and now he…
From an Edgar Grand Master! John Dortmunder agrees to steal a famous emerald — but his perfect heist could spark a war… A captivating thriller “filled with action and imagination” (The New York Times Book Review), with over 1,500 five-star Goodreads ratings.
Featuring Westlake’s hapless hero John Dortmunder, this original compilation of short stories ties in to the author’s latest Dortmunder hardcover, “The Road to Ruin.”
Donald E. Westlake’s great comic suspense novel won MWA’s Edgar Award in 1967. Con men descend upon its gullible hero when he comes into a $317,000 inheritance but Fred Fitch, as lovable as he is naive, stumbles to victory. Westlake’s earlier novel “The Fugitive Pigeon” virtually originated the modern comic-suspense genre so brilliantly refined in this later work.