Watch Your Back!
Author: Donald E. Westlake
After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author’s most recent Dortmunder caper. “The Road to Ruin,” and the short story collection, “Thieves’ Dozen,” received rave reviews in the “New York Times Book Review, New York Daily News,” and “Kirkus Reviews” (starred review), among other publications…..Read More
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Drowned Hopes
Arriving home after another failed burglary, Dortmunder finds his home occupied by an old cellmate. Tom Jimson left $700,000 buried in a small valley in upstate New York and needs… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Dortmunder (Fictitious Character), Fiction, General Humorous Fiction, Heist Crime
Get Shorty
Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his “friends” have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Crime Fiction England 1991, Literary Fiction, Paperbacks England 1991
Nobody’s Perfect
The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and the owner, rich and careless Mr. Chauncey, wants it stolen for the insurance. He hires Dortmunder, who has a… Continue Reading Posted in: Criminals, English Fiction, General Humorous Fiction, Heist Crime
What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
Dortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting a gun but the owner, nasty billionaire Max Fairbanks. Worse, Fairbanks… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, General Humorous Fiction, Heist Crime
Why Me?
Be careful what you steal . . . A fast-paced crime caper from the Edgar Award–winning author and “funniest man in the world” (The Washington Post Book World).The Byzantine Fire… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, Adventure Stories, Dortmunder (Fictitious Character), Heist Crime, Heist Thrillers
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