The New Black Mask (No 3)

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Donald E. Westlake is too complex a writer to characterize simply. In his twenty-five-year career, he has published upwards of sixty books. As Richard Stark, he wrote hard-boiled adventure novels about a tough professional thief named Parker; as Tucker Coe, he wrote about a neurotic ex-cop struggling to overcome his disgraceful dismissal from the force; under his own name, he has written a series of stories about a soft-boiled homicide detective named Abe Levine, who can never get used to death. Westlake is perhaps best known for his novels about John Dortmunder, a bewildered burglar who approaches his work with resignation while Westlake exposes him to the humiliations of comic circumstance.

Regardless of the pseudonym or the series character he employs, Donald E. Westlake is among the most admired writers in the field. We can only endorse the observation of Francis M. Nevins that “when the history of contemporary suspense fiction is compiled, he is likely to be recognized as one of its new masters.”

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