Donald Westlake (Estate)
A hugely successful American writer specialising in crime fiction, Donald Westlake (1933-2008) was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended Harpur College in Binghamton, New York State, and was part of the United States Air Force for two and a half years. Several of Westlake’s novels have been made into motion pictures, and he was himself a screenplay writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his script The Grifters, written in 1990, adapted from the novel by Jim Thompson. Donald Westlake also published under several pseudonyms, Richard Stark and the Parker series being the most prominent. Donald Westlake won three Edgar Awards and was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He married Abigail Westlake, a non-fiction writer, and they lived in Manhattan for many years, then in upstate New York.
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What's so Funny?Read more > -
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Nobody Runs ForeverRead more > -
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Thieves' DozenRead more > -
Money for NothingRead more > -
BreakoutRead more > -
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Put a Lid on ItRead more > -
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Bad NewsRead more > -
FlashfireRead more > -
BackflashRead more > -
A Good Story and Other StoriesRead more > -
ComebackRead more > -
The AxRead more > -
What's the Worst That Could Happen?Read more > -
SmokeRead more > -
Baby, Would I Lie?Read more > -
Don't AskRead more > -
HumansRead more > -
Horse Laugh and Other StoriesRead more > -
The Perfect MurderRead more > -
Drowned HopesRead more > -
Sacred MonsterRead more > -
Tomorrow's CrimesRead more > -
The Fourth Dimension is DeathRead more > -
Trust Me on ThisRead more > -
High JinxRead more > -
Transylvania StationRead more > -
What I Tell You Three Times is FalseRead more > -
One of Us is WrongRead more > -
I Know a Trick Worth Two of ThatRead more > -
Good BehaviorRead more > -
High AdventureRead more > -
LevineRead more > -
A Likely StoryRead more > -
Why Me?Read more > -
Castle in the AirRead more > -
EnoughRead more > -
Nobody's PerfectRead more > -
Dancing AztecsRead more > -
Brothers KeepersRead more > -
Two MuchRead more > -
Jimmy the KidRead more > -
Butcher's MoonRead more > -
Help I am Being Held PrisonerRead more > -
Gangway!Read more > -
Comfort Station (written under the pseudonym J. Morgan Cunningham)Read more > -
Bank ShotRead more > -
Cops and RobbersRead more > -
Don't Lie to MeRead more > -
Plunder SquadRead more > -
Under an English HeavenRead more > -
SlaygroundRead more > -
Deadly EdgeRead more > -
I Gave at the OfficeRead more > -
The Hot Rock - first in the 'Dortmunder' series by Donald WestlakeRead more > -
Wax AppleRead more > -
Adios ScheherazadeRead more > -
A Jade in AriesRead more > -
Ex Officio (written under the pseudonym Timothy J. Culver)Read more > -
The Sour Lemon ScoreRead more > -
Somebody Owes Me MoneyRead more > -
Up Your BannersRead more > -
The Black Ice ScoreRead more > -
Who Stole Sassi Manoon?Read more > -
The Curious Facts Preceding My ExecutionRead more > -
The Rare Coin ScoreRead more > -
The Green Eagle ScoreRead more > -
God Save the MarkRead more > -
PhilipRead more > -
Murder Among ChildrenRead more > -
The SeventhRead more > -
The HandleRead more > -
The Busy BodyRead more > -
The Spy in the OintmentRead more > -
Kinds of Love, Kinds of DeathRead more > -
Anarchaos (written under the pseudonym Curt Clark)Read more > -
The JuggerRead more > -
The Fugitive PigeonRead more > -
The Sin LosersRead more > -
Pity Him AfterwardsRead more > -
Passion DollRead more > -
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The Man with the Getaway FaceRead more > -
The MournerRead more >
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The ScoreRead more >
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KillyRead more > -
Campus LoversRead more > -
The Hunter - first in the 'Parker' series by Richard StarkRead more > -
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The Sin DrifterRead more > -
Strange AffairRead more > -
Sin Hellcat (wriiten under the pseudonym Andrew Shaw)Read more > -
Killing TimeRead more > -
Elizabeth TaylorRead more > -
Off LimitsRead more > -
Call Me SinnerRead more > -
Campus DollRead more > -
Brother and SisterRead more > -
The MercenariesRead more > -
All the Girls Were WillingRead more > -
The Wife Next DoorRead more > -
Virgin's SummerRead more > -
A Girl Called HoneyRead more > -
So WillingRead more > -
All About AnnetteRead more > -
Young and InnocentRead more > -
No Longer a Virgin (written under the pseudonym John Dexter)Read more > -
All My LoversRead more > -
Backstage LoveRead more > -
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