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.”
In “Dortmunder and Me, In Short,” his introduction to THIEVES’ DOZEN, a collection of stories starring John Dortmunder, “a guy who just keeps slipping the mind of Lady Luck,” and who made his debut in the comic crime novel THE HOT ROCK, Donald Westlake explains Dortmunder’s genesis along with the genesis of the stories themselves, many of which …
In “Dortmunder and Me, In Short,” his introduction to THIEVES’ DOZEN, a collection of stories starring John Dortmunder, “a guy who just keeps slipping the mind of Lady Luck,” and who made his debut in the comic crime novel THE HOT ROCK, Donald Westlake explains Dortmunder’s genesis along with the genesis of the stories themselves, many of which …