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["The Cutie". The MWA Grandmaster's first novel—published for the first time ever under the title he originally intended it to have!
When originally published as THE MERCENARIES, the book was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
-- 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. (from hardcasecrime.com ) ]

[* "The Damsel" is the first of the four Alan Grofield solo adventures, and takes place immediately after the events depicted in "The Handle", with Grofield having been left by Parker in Mexico City to recover from a bullet wound.]

[* The novel takes place immediately after the events depicted in "The Damsel".
General Pozos, the banana republic dictator from "The Damsel", sends a note to Grofield reading “You can perhaps help an acquaintance of mine. There will be profit in it.” Included are airline tickets to Puerto Rico. Intrigued, Grofield flies to Puerto Rico and eventually ends up at the home of Belle Danamato, the title dame, who thinks she could use his services. They do not get along, so Grofield leaves before finding out what services she was after. (http://violentworldofparker.com)]

[* "The Blackbird" begins with the same scene that starts "Slayground": an armored car heist which goes wrong when a shaky driver crashes the getaway car. Parker and Grofield go their separate ways and get their separate stories.]
[* Most of the events in "The Blackbird" take place after "Slayground" due to Grofield’s hospital stay, but "The Blackbird" was published first.
Synopsis: "The Blackbird" opens with an armored car robbery gone awry (in a first chapter shared, with minor variations, with "Slayground"). Alan Grofield ends up in the hospital, where, in exchange for his freedom, he is “volunteered” by a secret government agency to go to a conference of third-world leaders in Quebec to find out just what the hell they’re up to.
The reason Grofield was picked for this mission is because he knows both General Pozos, dictator of the South American banana republic Guerrero (who he met in "The Damsel"), and Onum Marba, a powerful politician from the African country Undurwa (who he met in The Dame), both of whom will be at the conference, representing their countries.) http://violentworldofparker.com]

[The Westlake novel "The Hot Rock" (1970) was originally intended to feature Parker, but the plot, which involves a precious gem that is stolen, lost, stolen again, lost again, and so on seemed too comic a situation for the hard-boiled Parker, so Westlake rewrote the novel with a more bumbling and likable cast of characters, including John Dortmunder, who is Parker seen through a comic mirror.]

[* "Slayground" and " The Blackbird" both open with the same botched armored car robbery, told from two different points of view: Grofield’s in "The Blackbird", Parker’s in "Slayground". The two books share the same opening chapter, but go off in completely different directions.]
[* "Slayground" - the Parker novel that follows "The Blackbird" chronologically. Actually, most of the events in "The Blackbird" take place after "Slayground" due to Grofield’s hospital stay, but "The Blackbird" was published first. (http://violentworldofparker.com)]

[* The novel "Dead Skip" (1972) by Joe Gores, share a chapter with "Plunder Squad" by Richard Stark.]
[*The Parker novel "Plunder Squad" (1972) contains a brief encounter with a San Francisco detective named Kearney, who is not looking for Parker but for one of his associates. The same encounter is described from Kearney's point of view in the Joe Gores DKA (Dan Kearny and Associates) novel "Dead Skip" (DKA File Series, book 1, 1972). Westlake and Gores repeated the same trick in 1990 with matching sequences in the DKA novel "32 Cadillacs" (DKA File Series, book 4) and the Dortmunder novel "Drowned Hopes".]

[*It describes the revolution against independence on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in 1969.]

[* Spoof, inspired by the works of Arthur Hailey ("Hotel", "Airport"). The cover contained a blurb: "I wish I had written this book!" – Donald E. Westlake. ] ;-)

[* A comic crime caper novel featuring a motley gang, set in 19th-century California.]

[The novel "Jimmy the Kid" (1974), features a plot in which Dortmunder and his associates base a kidnapping on a plan from a (fictitious) Parker novel called "Child Heist".]

["Good Behavior" (1985) was originally intended as the seventeenth Parker novel following "Butcher's Moon" (1974), but, like "The Hot Rock" (1970), was rewritten for Dortmunder.]

{High Jinx (A Mohonk Mystery) by Donald & Abby Westlake
Paperback 093976704X Dennis McMillan Pubns, Tuscon, Arizona, U.S.A. Signed First Edition}
[* A book in the same format as "Transylvania Station", adapted from Mohonk Mountain House mystery weekends. Introduction by Martin Cruz Smith]
Set: Switzerland, 1938. Mystery game.
[Synopsis: Every year, high on a mountaintop in upstate New York, 300 or more people gather together to confront and solve a murder. A mysterious murder, a baffling and bewildering murder, surrounded by suspects and clues. There, in Mohonk Mountain House, they interrogate the suspects, they follow the trail, they compare notes and at last they learn the Truth.
   Come relive this experience. Donald and Abby Westlake, who put on the Mohonk Mysteries, have assembled and adapted their most nefarious schemes and present them to be read in the comfort-and safety?-of your own easy chair. Come join them, but don't look behind you.
   This time, our mountain becomes a Swiss Alp, the year becomes 1938, and Mohonk Mountain House turns itself into the Hotel Kuckkkuckuhr, crammed with spies, refugees, Nazis and...murder.]

{Transylvania Station (A Mohonk Mystery) by Donald & Abby Westlake
Paperback 0939767058 Dennis McMillan, Miami Beach Signed First Edition.}
[* Humorous/mystery/horror novel based on one of the Mohonk Mystery Weekends. Illustrated with photos. Written in collaboration with his wife. Not a novel, but a short series of sketches as background for a mystery party game. This one is about vampires. Introduction by Stephen King]
Set: Rumania, 1890s. Mystery game.
[Synopsis: Every year, on a mountaintop in upstate New York, 300 or more people gather to confront and solve a murder mystery. The Mohonk Mystery dinners where among the first and Donald and Abby Westlake have put one of their presentations into a book form. The Castle Alucard, on a bleak peak in the Carpathians -- back before the turn of the last century is deep in Vampire country. It is full of mystery, dark shadows, and .. sudden death.]

[Synopsis: 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 Buick.]

[D.W.'s dedication: "To the memory of Gary Salt, fine friend, esteemed literary agent, West Coast pillar of strength, an ally for 22 years, dead of cancer at 53. I call that too young. Goodbye, Gary."
Synopsis: Bryce Proctorr has a multi-million dollar contract for his next novel, a wife who is trying to extract the last pound of flesh from him in an ugly divorce, a fast approaching deadline, and a serious case of writer's block. Wayne Prentice is an author with an unwanted manuscript, and he is drifting ghostlike through a world that has forgotten his novels. When the two meet by chance, Proctorr has a proposition: if Prentice will give him his unsold manuscript to publish under Proctorr's name, the two will split the book advance fifty-fifty. But there is a significant catch: Wayne must kill Bryce's wife.]

[D.W.'s dedication: "I would like to thank Jeannette for the dessert. It was delicious."
Synopsis: Some days you just might be better off dead. At least, that's what smart alec Barry Lee decides when yet another of his get rich quick schemes falls short of perfect and he finds he has only one asset left: his life. Or rather, the insurance on it. Collecting the benefits of life insurance, however, involves some painfully ultimate realities that Barry Lee would sooner avoid. So it is that Barry and Lola, his beautiful South American wife and partner in con artistry, set out to play the globalization of the insurance industry to their advantage. The story of their journey to Lola's native Guerrera and their sure fire scheme to pull off the perfect con, which begins with the staging of Barry's spectacular and very public accidental death, becomes increasingly perilous as he attempts to negotiate his afterlife in a world he in no way understands. To his surprise, some of Lola's more blunt minded and ham fisted cousins are figuring that if the whole family's going to get rich with Barry Lee dead, he's not dead enough...]

[Synopsis: John Dortmunder as a butler? Well, he’s not really a butler; he’s just playing one at the heavily guarded estate of crooked tycoon Monroe Hall. A corporate pariah surrounded by loot, including a fleet of priceless vintage cars, Hall soon finds his needs—from driving to cooking—eagerly fulfilled by Dortmunder and his gang. Dortmunder’s plan: to change in one fell swoop from loyal servants to merry robbers, and drive off with ill-gotten plunder. There’s just one problem. Monroe Hall has as many enemies as antiques. Before Dortmunder can go from serving to stealing, Hall disappears and the cops are knocking on the door. And after a violent crime is committed, Dortmunder is in the worst place possible. For as everyone knows, whenever there’s mischief in a mansion … the butler always did it!]

[D.W.'s dedication: "To Susan Richman, who wasn't sure it was such a good idea, but who marched forward anyway God bless."]

[D.W.'s dedication: "For Larry Kirshbaum - welcome aboard".
Synopsis: In his classic caper novels, Donald E. Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down. 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 intentions. Now Westlake's seasoned but often scoreless crook must take on an impossible crime, one he doesn't want and doesn't believe in. But a little blackmail goes a long way in... WHAT'S SO FUNNY?
   All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play. With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar, which unfortunately reached Russia after that party was over. From the moment Dortmunder reaches for his first pawn, he faces insurmountable odds. The purloined past of this precious set is destined to confound any strategy he finds on the board. Success is not inevitable with John Dortmunder leading the attack, but he's nothing if not persistent, and some gambit or other might just stumble into a winning move.]

[D.W.: "When I sent ASK THE PARROT, the previous Parker novel in the series, to Stephen Moore, my west coast agent, he said, "Oh, does that mean it's going to be a trilogy?" "No, no," I said, "This is just the next book in the series." But his question stuck in my mind. Although ASK THE PARROT had nothing to do with the book before that, NOBODY RUNS FOREVER, except that it starts one second after the previous book ends, and although ASK THE PARROT does close out its own story and characters pretty satisfactorily, it was true there were some messy strings hanging out of NOBODY RUNS FOREVER and some cash up there in New England that Parker and his associates thought they had a right to. So, thanks to Stephen Moore, DIRTY MONEY started to grow in my mind. Maybe it's more a triptych than a trilogy, where the side panels reflect on one story and the center panel reflects on something else. At any rate, it closes out the triplet, tercet, triangle, and the job is done. And no, it won't be a tetralogy". -- from The official Donald Westlake web site ]
[Synopsis: In "Nobody Runs Forever" (2004), Stark’s intrepid thief Parker and two accomplices waylay a caravan of armored cars carrying a bank’s entire cash assets. But a fast police response forces them to hide the money and hope to recover it later, when the heat dies down. The problems that plagued the heist continue in "Dirty Money". One of the crooks is captured but escapes by killing a federal marshal, and Parker and his remaining accomplice, abetted by a female bounty hunter who deals herself in, must return to the scene of a crime crawling with local, state, and federal cops to recover the money before their former ally is recaptured and rats them out. Even worse, every serial number on the stolen bills is recorded, and if they succeed, they might net a dollar for every 10. Stark, aka Donald Westlake, seems to be drawing from his delightful criminal-caper-gone-wrong Dortmunder novels here, but the hard-edged Parker is as resolute and dangerous as ever, and the faithful will stand beside him through every step of this typically involved and entertaining novel. -- Thomas Gaughan from Booklist]

[-- A reality-show company aptly titled Get Real recruits the delightfully understated John Dortmunder and his merry men for a heist in this clever Dortmunder novel (after "What's So Funny?"), a worthy final word from Westlake (1933-2008). The producer of the prospective series, Doug Fairkeep, reveals himself to be both cynical and naïve, a combination that makes him an excellent foil for the guys. Naturally, the gang has to make this gig pay more than what's offered, as much for the fun of it as for the extra cash. While Get Real helps them map out a "real" robbery, the boys are mapping out a real robbery-of some of the company's "hidden assets." The thinking is that Get Real can hardly come after them to retrieve cash that it can't admit that it has. The game plan changes nearly hourly, and the outcome is anything but certain. The assorted idiosyncrasies of the group's members and the interactions among them will rouse chuckles from even jaded readers.(Publishers Weekly)]

[-Written in the 1960s, published posthumously.
--The Final Novel From MWA Grandmaster Donald E. Westlake. First Publication Ever.
--The Crime Was Over In A Minute — The Consequences Lasted A Lifetime.
 Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds—and a bleak fate if he fails...
 This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man’s struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.]

[Written in the early 1980s, published posthumously.
--First publication anywhere! The MWA Grand Master's Great Last Novel.
--The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People’s Revolutionary Army, who’ve decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life...
--A lost, unpublished novel by best-selling novelist Donald E. Westlake. (from hardcasecrime.com ) ]

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Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories (1996, New York: Oxford University Press) [ed. Donald E. Westlake, November 1996]
Contents:
“Introduction” by  Donald E. Westlake;
The Locked Room:
John Dickson Carr «The Shadow of the Goat»; Damon Runyon «What, No Butler?»; Edward D. Hoch «The Leopold Locked Room»; William Brittain «The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr»;
Only One Among You:
G. K. Chesterton «The Secret Garden»; Dorothy L. Sayers «The Necklace of Pearls»; Dashiell Hammett «They Can Only Hang You Once»; Stuart M. Kaminsky «Busted Blossoms»;
The Caper:
E. W. Hornung «A Costume Piece»; John F. Suter «The Impossible Theft»; Simon Brett «Don’t Know Much About Art»; Donald E. Westlake «The Ultimate Caper»;
The Armchair Detective:
Baroness Emmuska Orczy «The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway»; Agatha Christie «The Blue Geranium»; Ellery Queen «The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue»; Rex Stout «The Affair of the Twisted Scarf»;
Come Into My Parlor:
Roald Dahl «The Landlady»; Stanley Ellin «The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby»; Christianna Brand «Bless This House»; Lawrence Block «Someday I’ll Plant More Walnut Trees»;
I Confess! :
Edgar Allan Poe « “Thou Art the Man” »; Arthur Conan Doyle «The Adventure of the Dying Detective»; Jack London «The Master of Mystery»;
Hoist on their Own Petards:
Anna Katharine Green «Midnight in Beauchamp Row»; Raymond Chandler «I’ll Be Waiting»; Shirley Jackson «The Possibility of Evil»; Peter Lovesey «The Secret Lover»;
Over the Edge:
Susan Glaspell «A Jury of Her Peers»; Thomas Burke «The Hands of Mr. Ottermole»; Chester Himes «Tang»; Fredric Brown «Little Apple Hard to Peel».

The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (2000, Houghton Mifflin) [ Series editor Otto Penzler. Anthology of 20 stories edited by Donald E. Westlake, November 2000 ]
Contents:
“Foreword” by Otto Penzler;
“Introduction” by Donald E. Westlake;
Doug Allyn «Miracles! Happen!»; David Beaty «Ghosts»; Tom Berdine «Spring Rite»; Bentley Dadmun «Annie’s Dream»; Barbara D’Amato «Motel 66»; Geary Danihy  «Jumping with Jim»; Jeffery Deaver «Triangle»; Edward Falco «The Instruments of Peace»; Tom Franklin «Grit»; David Edgerley Gates «Compass Rose»; Robert Girardi «The Defenestration of Aba Sid»; Chad Hilley «The Island in the River»; Edward Lee «ICU»; Dennis Lehane «Running Out of Dog»; Thomas H. McNeely «Sheep»; Martha Moffett «Dead Rock Singer»; Josh Pryor «Wrong Numbers»; Shel Silverstein «Guilty Party»; Peter Moore Smith «Forgetting the Girl»; Brad Watson «Water Dog God»;
+ Contributors’ Notes; Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 1999.