Good Behavior, Donald E. Westlake
Good Behavior, Donald E. Westlake
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Good Behavior
A Dortmunder Novel

Author: Donald E. Westlake

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2014


Synopsis

John Dortmunder’s one of the slyest burglars going. But while fleeing the police during his latest caper, he falls through the roof of the Silent Sisterhood of St. Filumena—and into the lap of trouble.

About Donald E. Westlake

Donald E. Westlake has written numerous novels during the past 40 years, under his own name and various pseudonyms--most famously Richard Stark. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer of comic mystery of all time. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hunter which was filmed first as the noir classic with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, and then as Payback starring Mel Gibson. He has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on June 11, 2015

After a couple of weeks of expensive home repairs, tornado sirens regularly wailing in the background and reading Emma Donoghue’s excellent but ultra-depressing Room, I really needed a laugh. Fortunately, I had a Donald Westlake Dortmunder novel I hadn’t read yet mounted in a glass box on the wall w......more

Goodreads review by Ed on March 06, 2020

I've been a big fan of Mr. Westlake's noirish "Parker" series he writes under the Richard Stark pseudonym for years. I've been meaning to try his Dortmunder series, so I took the plunge with reading Good Behavior. John Dortmunder and his motley crew are professional thieves who this time get mixed u......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on March 26, 2020

The perfect read for these troubled times, honestly. This is an especially fun Dortmunder installment (that loses that fifth star only because there are a few plot threads that seem to bob up and then disappear without garnering enough laughs first). When one of poor Dortmunder's attempted robberies......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 18, 2019

The premise and set up are fine, but the third act is wacky, and not in a good, structured Marx brothers way - more in a 'the editor dropped the pages on deadline, didn't find them all, and put them together wrong' way.......more

Goodreads review by Larissa on October 14, 2018

Fun, fluffy, maybe over-long, but a great conceit and good-humored. It reads like the treatment for a movie, which is actually kind of nice.......more