Levine
Donald Westlake (Estate)Pub date 1st January 1984
Original publisher Mysterious Press
International publishers Editions Payot et Rivages (France), Lindhardt & Ringhof (Sweden)
A collection of six short stories about Abraham Levine, a Brooklyn police detective obsessed with his own mortality. All but one story are taken from a series he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Praise for Levine
“Westlake is a crisp, tangy, no-fat storyteller–and fans of old-fashioned police drama (psychological, social, with echoes of earnest 1950s teleplays) will find this a welcome resurrection.” – Kirkus
