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Category Archives: Donald Westlake
KINDS OF LOVE, KINDS OF DEATH (1966) by Donald Westlake
Donald Edwin Edward Westlake (1933-2008) was a prolific writer and over the decades published all kinds of crime and mystery books – and other types of fiction too – under a great many pseudonyms. Of the dozen or so names … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Westlake, Film Noir, New York, Richard Stark, Scene of the crime
Tagged matt scudder, tucker coe
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THE HUNTER (1962) by Richard Stark
The writer protagonist in Stephen King’s The Dark Half, having failed as a literary novelist, uses ‘Stark’ as the pen name for a series of crime books about a killer, which become hugely popular to his growing chagrin. He explains that he … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Westlake, Film Noir, Five Star review, Parker, Richard Stark
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