Jimmy the Kid, Donald E. Westlake
Jimmy the Kid, Donald E. Westlake
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Jimmy the Kid
A Dortmunder Novel

Author: Donald E. Westlake

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2013

Synopsis

Life imitates art in this caper featuring bungling criminals who base their kidnapping plan on a novel.

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 John

. [Finished in Sept 2022; Reviewed Jan 2023] ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The completist in me made me read this book. Does that mean I’m a big fan of Donald E. Westlake? I can't say “big.” Enough to keep reading his work, anyway. His Parker books written as Richard Stark, that’s another matter. One of my favorite series......more

Goodreads review by Dave

Donald Westlake is one of the great mystery writers of all time, but I had only until now read works he wrote under a pseudonym, Richard Stark, a series featuring a cold-blooded criminal known only as Parker, and a spin-off series featuring a minor character from the Parker series, Alan Grofield. I t......more

Goodreads review by F.R.

I guess when Donald Westlake wrote ‘Jimmy The Kid’ it was as a final goodbye to Parker. He’d already given us the great, epic Parker novel ‘Butcher’s Moon’ and this was the final kiss-off. The Parker character was wrapped in with Westlake’s more comic perennial, Dortmunder, and I suspect – in 1974 –......more

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