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Donald E. Westlake
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Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR. "An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
They built a spaceship, is the long and the short of it, Darquelnoy, the alien who’d been on the earth’s moon for ages. Observing, Ebor, an old friend of his…
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The multi-award-winning, widely acclaimed mystery master and screenplay writer Donald E. Westlake delivers another masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.
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Since his Edgar Allan Poe Award-nominated debut novel in 1960, Grand Master Donald E. Westlake has been setting standards in crime fiction. Now his bemused, beguiling thief, Dortmunder, is back…
The Risk Profession, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
It’s an engaging little tale, set in a asteroid-belt colony: our hero is an investigator for an interplanetary insurance company, ferreting out the truth behind suspicious (and sometimes, uhm, otherworldly)…
A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese.
Fred Fitch, a hapless sucker for any type of con, inherits three hundred thousand dollars from his long-lost Uncle Matt, an ex-crook murdered by persons unknown, who have now set…
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…
Hapless criminal John Dortmunder returns in another rollicking tale of disorganized crime from Grand Master of Mystery Donald E. Westlake.
The hard-luck burglar John Dortmunder–Westlake’s most celebrated character–plunges into the world of international diplomacy in his latest caper. The winner of three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Westlake has been nominated…
Facing life without parole, career thief Francis Meehan awaits sentencing in Manhattan when he’s approached with an offer he can’t refuse: all charges will be dropped if he steals an…
John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan…
From Donald Westlake, one of the greatest living crime writers, comes a tale of betrayal and revenge that explores the limits of family loyalty, and reveals just how far one…
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
Selected from hundreds of stories and spanning decades of work, this entertaining collection of suspenseful adventures featuring the irrepressible John Dortmunder includes: Ask a Silly Question; A Midsummer’s Daydream; Party…
Academy Award nominee Donald Westlake (The Grifters) returns with a never-before-published thriller based on his story for a James Bond movie that never got made! With an afterword by Bond…
THE MOVIE STAR AND THE MOVIE CRITIC - HOW FAR WOULD THEY GO TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS BURIED? DOUBLE FEATURE contains two CLASSIC Donald E. Westlake novellas, A Travesty and…
A book by this guy is cause for happiness. - Stephen King
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What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to…
HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for…
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…
Winston, New York--a nice town, a quiet town. Sure, there's corruption, but the streets are clean, everything works, and everyone has what they need. It's a delicate balance, all held…
The Hot Rock introduces John Archibald Dortmunder, the thief whose capers never quite come off, as he and his convict friends plot to steal the fabulous Balaboma Emerald.
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…
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…
Bungling burglar John Dortmunder and his merry band of thieves are back in another classic, comic crime novel from the award-winning author of the new hardcover Baby, Would I Lie…
Master thief, John Dortmunder, finds himself involved an impossible crime, one he doesn’t want and doesn’t believe in and which he’d rather avoid if possible…but a little blackmail goes a…
Dortmunder’s past comes back to haunt him when he returns home after an unsuccessful burglary and finds his old cellmate sitting in his living room. He needs Dortmunder’s help in…
Ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder and his merry band of misfits attempt to drive off with a fleet of vintage automobiles in a con against a corrupt CEO who…
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…
The funeral for a Mafia drug mule leads to trouble when the body goes missing.
From the master of the rolling scam, here is a hilarious crime caper set in New York. A hot hustler is searching for a million-dollar Aztec sculpture that is accidentally…
Life imitates art in this caper featuring bungling criminals who base their kidnapping plan on a novel.
