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THE SPY IN THE ELEVATOR AND THREE MORE STORIES

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Great collection of action short stories by Donald E. Westlake from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Spy in the Elevator", "The Risk Profession", "They also Serve", and "Call Him Nemesis". ...

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A JADE IN ARIES

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A desperate man is trying to find his partner's killer by means of astrology, and resist as he may, ex-cop Mitch Tobin is destined to help him do it. Disgraced ex-cop Mitch Tobin is digging in his basement when he meets Ronald Cornell. A gay man from downtown Brooklyn whose partner was recently murdered, Cornell wants Tobin's assistance in an investigation that the NYPD has d...

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MURDER AMONG CHILDREN

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

When some West Village hippie kids get mixed up with the mob, the results are murder—and ex-cop Mitch Tobin tries to clean up the mess. On the outskirts of Greenwich Village, among a wasteland of warehouses and tenements, a group of young people are opening a coffee shop. They are idealistic, giddy, and beautiful—the picture of 1960s youth—but their optimism cannot last. When...

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THE SCARED STIFF

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A couple's insurance scam could turn a faked death into a real one, in this witty crime thriller by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Dortmunder novels. After more than a decade of skipping out on their debts, Lola and Barry owe a lot of money to the wrong people. To escape the loan sharks, Barry decides it's time for one of them to die—or at least to pretend to. As the v...

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WAX APPLE

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

At a mental institution, Mitch Tobin searches for a patient with a violent sense of humor Mitch Tobin is about to be committed. Since his abrupt dismissal from the NYPD, Tobin's nerves have been frayed, and if it wasn't for his work as a private detective, he might well be in need of actual psychiatric care. But during his stay at the Midway, a halfway house for those recoverin...

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DON'T LIE TO ME

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Working night security at a museum, ex-cop Mitchell Tobin finds a naked corpse on display in this crime novel by the Edgar Award–winning author. When he first met Linda Campbell, Mitchell Tobin was nothing more to her than the man who had put her husband in jail. It took over a year for them to begin their affair, but once it started, it became intense—lasting right up to the...

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EX OFFICIO

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

An ailing ex-president attempts to return to the world stage Few retirements are tougher than that of a former president. For more than a decade, the once-powerful Bradford Lockridge, whose presidency was cut short after one term, has slipped further and further into obscurity. At his lowest point, he flies to California to attend the opening of a supermarket, just for a chance...

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BANK SHOT

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A crew of thieves hopes to hijack a mobile home full of money in this crime caper from "the funniest man in the world" ( The Washington Post). John Dortmunder has been working an encyclopedia-selling scam while waiting for his next big heist. Unfortunately, his latest mark seems to be wise to the con, and he has to cut his sales pitch short and make a quick escape. But opport...

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DANCING AZTECS

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

The hunt is on for a valuable statue in this comic crime thriller from "the funniest man in the world" ( The Washington Post). A small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one o...

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DROWNED HOPES

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

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 after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank ro...

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GOOD BEHAVIOR

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A hapless thief is drafted by a gang of nuns in need, in a novel by an Edgar Award winner who "has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists" ( San Francisco Chronicle). It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his a...

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THE HOT ROCK

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper "filled with action and imagination" ( The New York Times Book Review). John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away ...

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JIMMY THE KID

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A kidnapping plan cribbed from a crime novel goes hilariously wrong for gang boss John Dortmunder—from the Edgar Award–winning author of Bank Shot. When his "friend" Andy Kelp has a plan, career criminal John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. Kelp's schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He re...

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NOBODY'S PERFECT

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

An inside-job art heist goes awry in this "wildly funny" crime novel by the Edgar Award–winning author ( The New York Times Book Review). It would take a miracle to keep Dortmunder out of jail. Though he cased the electronics store perfectly, the cops surprised him, turning up in the alley just as he was walking out the back door, a television in each hand. Already a two-time...

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TWO MUCH!

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A ruse to bed a pair of twins quickly grows complicated Art doesn't mean to tell Liz Kerwin that he has a twin. He's on Fire Island, and she's so beautiful that he's willing to say anything for a chance at getting rid of her clothes. So when Liz mentions an identical twin sister, Art blurts out that he has a twin too. His name is Bart, he says, and describes the most boring man...

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WHY ME?

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

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 is much more than a ninety-carat ruby. As a stone it's worth over a million dollars, a value vastly increased by its pure gold band—but its history makes it priceless. A ring that has been fought for...

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KINDS OF LOVE, KINDS OF DEATH

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A mob boss hires an ex-cop to find his mistress's killer in "the kind of tight lipped, hard mouthed story . . . which Chandler initiated and which Bogart immortalized" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Six months ago, Mitchell Tobin lost his career—and with it, his identity. An honest cop drummed out of the force because of one terrible mistake, Tobin has spent six months wa...

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GOD SAVE THE MARK

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

This Edgar Award winner is a "raucously funny" novel of crime, con artists, and a poor sucker caught in the middle, by the author of the Dortmunder series ( Kirkus Reviews). If there is a scam operating anywhere, sooner or later it will find Fred Fitch. The pure-hearted, gullible man seems to get taken every time he turns around. At this point, he's been ripped off so many ti...

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HIGH ADVENTURE

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

One man's quest to make history—and a lot of money : "High entertainment " from the three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard). Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream—to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle r...

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THE FUGITIVE PIGEON

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

This "high comedy of errors [and] murder" with a cat-and-mouse plot is "real fun on the run" from the Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery ( Kirkus Reviews). Charlie Poole is a bum. His friends know it. His gangster uncle Al knows it. And Charlie himself knows it better than anyone. He's stuck with his meager lot, tending bar at his uncle's Brooklyn dive, picking up th...

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TRUST ME ON THIS

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

"A boffo performance" of crime, romance, and tabloid journalism from the three-time Edgar Award–winning author of Baby, Would I Lie? ( Publishers Weekly). Sara Joslyn is fresh from journalism school and ready to take on the world. Unfortunately, she has to settle for the galaxy—the Weekly Galaxy, to be precise, the sensational gossip rag where no low is too low, and no story ...

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BABY, WOULD I LIE?

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

"A delightfully feisty, smart heroine" is up against a country music killer in this comic thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of Trust Me on This ( Publishers Weekly ). Having endured the seedy world of tabloid journalism at the Weekly Galaxy, ambitious reporter Sara Joslyn has finally moved on to Trend, a hip New York magazine. But news is news, and Sara is immedi...

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THE SPY IN THE OINTMENT

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

The three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery serves up a dangerous case of mistaken identity in "the best spy comedy I have ever read" ( The New York Times). J. Eugene Raxford is not what anyone would call a debonair man of action. He has no class, no skills, and all the physical prowess of a napping tree sloth. James Bond would think twice before letting him pa...

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COPS AND ROBBERS

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

The Grand Master of Mystery delivers "nerve-end-entertainment" when two of New York's finest set out to become two of New York's richest ( Kirkus Reviews). Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple longer than they can remember—or care to. They've been good cops, protecting the public and holding the line against crime and chaos in a city tha...

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THE GETAWAY CAR

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

“This is a book for everyone, anyone who likes mystery novels or good writing or wit and passion and intelligence.”—The New York Times 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, Wes...

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COMFORT STATION

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

In the comfort station at Bryant Park, worlds collide and lives are changed forever Look past the grandeur of the famous New York Public Library and you will see the true architectural marvel of Forty-Second Street: the comfort station. A small building, modest in its proportions but undeniable in its importance, its handful of stalls and urinals provide a haven for rich and po...

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JIMMY THE KID

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

A kidnapping plan cribbed from a crime novel goes hilariously wrong for gang boss John Dortmunder—from the Edgar Award–winning author of Bank Shot. When his "friend" Andy Kelp has a plan, career criminal John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. Kelp's schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He re...

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GEM AND STONE

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Gem and Stone celebrates 50 different gems ranging from timeless classics like diamond and emerald to exotic beauties such as lapis lazuli, peridot, and even petrified wood. Altman's photographs capture the splendor of each gem alongside brief text highlighting the stones' chemical makeups, metaphysical properties, and associated folklore throughout human history. Hand-drawn il...

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INSTANT LOVE

DONALD E. WESTLAKE / VALERIE BOWMAN / AMANDA GILLIGAN

With instant film once again available, Polaroids and other instant cameras are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. This friendly and informative guide is the essential how-to book for shooting gorgeous instant pictures with personal panache and a touch of romance. Packed with tips on how to shoot with various cameras, details about the different types of film available, advic...

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THE BUSY BODY

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

"Merriment, mayhem and a plot that really keeps you guessing" from the Grand Master of Mystery and author of the John Dortmunder novels ( Kirkus Reviews). The corpse isn't anybody special—a low-level drug courier—but it has been so long since the organization's last grand funeral that Nick Rovito decides to give the departed a big send-off. He pays for a huge church, a proces...

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