Donald E Westlake
21) The Cutie
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Some people will do anything for money.
Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man's mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her.
But the punk was innocent. He'd been set up to take the fall by some cutie who was too clever by half. My job? Find that cutie—before the cutie found me.
22) The Dame
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less
...23) Don't ask
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
24) Smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A New York burglar breaks into a tobacco research institute, is captured and used as a guinea pig for an experiment in invisibility. He escapes and grows rich, but his girlfriend finds his invisibility unsettling and, anyway, all good things come to an end. By the author of Baby, Would I Lie?
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
463 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up--about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule--had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste,...
26) Sacred monster
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Amoral Jack Pine becomes a Hollywood star, with his boyhood friend Buddy Pal ever silenty watchful until Jack commits an unforgivable crime in the name of success.
27) The ax
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who lost his job as manager of a paper mill resorts to murder to obtain work. He is Burke Devore of Connecticut and his plan is to kill a manager to create an opening and kill the likely applicants so as to leave him the only candidate. But the scheme does not work the way he intended.
30) Call me a cab
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A New York City cab driver drives a beautiful woman across the country to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life awaits.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A South American dictator conceals millions of dollars worth of valuables in a dismantled castle being flown to Paris and a quickly assembled, international gang of thieves--each with national eccentricities--set out to steal the entire castle.
32) Trust me on this
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Newswoman Sara Joslyn goes to work for a notorious supermarket tabloid in Florida and finds herself dealing with assorted big stories and a corpse in a Buick.
33) A likely story
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tom Diskant, a writer, struggles to get a Christmas anthology published, and wishes his estranged wife would get involved with someone else so that he could marry his girlfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
7 unnumbered pages, 172 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When two men from the Organization come into his bar to kill him, Charlie Poole figures that someone has made a mistake, and he decides to go to the Organization's boss to clear things up. Only, when he gets there the boss is dead--and Charlie has to keep running to save his life.
36) Parker
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : digital sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
37) The grifters
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
38) The stepfather
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr. 29 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man searching for the perfect family marries a widow with children, only to kill them all when they act more normal than his dream family should. When his new stepdaughter sees through his fake persona, he must drop his Ward Cleaver attitude and show her how a real daughter should act. Loosely based on a true news story of New Jersey mass-murderer John List.This DVD's release of the original 1987 movie in Oct. 2009 corresponds to the theatrical...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich and crooked businessman Max Fairbanks (who has to file for bankruptcy and is ripe for the pickings). But Fairbanks catches him in the act, calls the police and then procedes to steal the cherished ring that Kevin's girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back. With the help of his partners and an auction, a thief steals from a crook.
