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Nobody's Perfect

Nobody's Perfect
Pub date 1st January 1977
Original publisher M. Evans
Publisher (UK) eBook (Kindle)
International publishers Grada (Czech Republic), Editions Payot et Rivages (France), Edizioni Pendragon (Italy)

When an art collector hires Dortmunder to steal one of his own paintings, it would take a miracle to keep Dortmunder out of jail. Despite casing the electronics store perfectly, the cops surprise him, turning up in the alley just as he walks out the back door, a television in each hand. Already a two-time loser, without divine intervention he faces a long stretch inside. Then God sends J. Radcliffe Stonewiler, a celebrity lawyer who gets Dortmunder off with hardly any effort at all. 

Stonewiler was sent by Arnold Chauncey, an art lover with a cash flow problem. He asks the thief to break into his house and make off with a valuable painting in exchange for a quarter of the insurance money. Chauncey has pulled the stunt twice before, so it must look real. He’ll give Dortmunder no inside help—a shame since, when this caper spins out of control, he’ll need all the help he can get.

 

Praise for Nobody’s Perfect

“Wildly funny [and] written with Westlake’s usual expertise.”The New York Times Book Review

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