Author: Donald E. Westlake
Narrator: Brian Holsopple
Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 02/28/2012
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Mystery & Detective
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.
Recommended Not a busybody but a busy body which is missing from its grave. The mobster tasked with finding the body is a little slow on the uptake but this is still a classic Donald Westlake romp.......more
Starting from when I read "The Hot Rock" as a teenager, Donald E. Westlake was one of my all-time favorite authors, and this was one of his funniest books -- and cleverest plots. The funeral scene is one of the funniest things I've ever read.......more
Donald E. Westlake wrote in the neighborhood of a hundred novels, publishing both under his own name and six pseudonyms. I'm a fan Richard Stark, the Westlake persona that wrote the Parker novels, stories of a master thief and alpha predator whom the reader observes with rapt attention and fascinati......more