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Castle in the Air by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Crime and Thrillers
In the funniest crime caper ever from Grandmaster Donald Westlake, four teams of international thieves race through Paris to steal a king's ransom from the walls of a disassembled castle. A DIRTY DOZEN WITH A FRENCH CONNECTION When four groups of international heist artists team up to pull off t ...Show more
Don't Ask by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Fiction
Dortmunder has a job offer. He's been hired by third parties to pull off heists in the past, but never to lay his hands on anything this peculiar. It is the 800 year old femur of a 16-year-old girl who, having been killed and eaten by her own family, was made a saint by the Church. Now two European coun ...Show more
Double Feature by Westlake, Donald E
Category: Crime Fiction
THE MOVIE STAR AND THE MOVIE CRITIC -- HOW FAR WOULD THEY GO TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS BURIED? DOUBLE FEATURE Contains two CLASSIC Donald E. Westlake novellas, A Travesty and Ordo. WHAT'S HIDDEN BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN? In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend - well, one of his gi ...Show more
Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Dortmunder Ser.
Dortmunder's past comes back to haunt him when he returns home after an unsuccessful burglary and finds his old cellmate sitting in his living room. He needs Dortmunder's help in retrieving $700,000 that he'd buried in a small town 30 years before. The problem is that, while he sat in jail, the State of ...Show more
Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Dortmunder Ser.
This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but aft ...Show more
Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Academy Award nominee Donald Westlake (The Grifters) returns with a never-before-published thriller based on his story for a James Bond movie that never got made With an afterword by Bond producer Jeff Kleeman. A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the B ...Show more
Get Real: A Dortmunder Novel by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
In Westlake's classic caper novels, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief named John Dortmunder and the current object of his attention. However, being caught red-handed is inevitable in Dortmunder's next production, when a TV producer convinces this thief ...Show more
Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E. Westlake
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Hard Case Crime Ser.
JAILED FOR A JOKE It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold K nt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his ...Show more
The Getaway Car - A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany by Donald E. Westlake; Levi Stahl (Introduction by, Editor); Lawrence Block (Foreword by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with fans continuing to ...Show more
The Hot Rock - A Graphic Adaptation by Lax; Donald E. Westlake
Category: Graphic Novels
June 1969, New York. Fresh out of prison, John Dortmunder is approached to do a heist by one of his former accomplices, Kelp, an expert in stealing cars. The plan is to take advantage of an African Art exhibition to steal its star attraction - an emerald worth half a million dollars.