Donald Westlake: 58 books

Book cover of Wax Apple
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

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...
Book cover of Don't Lie to Me
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

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...
Book cover of Murder Among Children
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

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,...
Book cover of The Road to Ruin
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007

The con is on. the mark is Monroe Hall, a corrupt CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The catch? Trying to outsmart a collection of angry union...
Book cover of Good Behavior
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

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...
Book cover of Dancing Aztecs
by Donald E Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

When sixteen copies of a famous Aztec statue arrive in New York, men will die to find out which one is the real thing 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...
Book cover of Bad News
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001

John Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when he gets the offer of money to dig up a grave, he balks . . . then he wonders why Fitzroy Guilderpost, criminal mastermind, wants to pull a switcheroo of two 70-years-dead Indians.
Book cover of Drowned Hopes
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015

An old cellmate asks Dortmunder for help robbing a reservoir. 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...
Book cover of Put a Lid on It
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008

Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when he is called to a meeting by someone masquerading as his lawyer. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential re-election campaign committee -- now finding itself in need of...
Book cover of Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

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...
Book cover of Two Much!
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

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...
Book cover of What's the Worst That Could Happen?
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001

It started with a ring. A cheap ring. The yellow metal said brass, not gold, and the sparkly bits were certainly not diamonds. But the ring belonged to May's horseplaying uncle, who swore it brought good luck. Dortmunder, who wouldn't kick a little good luck out of bed, puts it to the test when he...
Book cover of Kahawa
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001

In Uganda in 1977, a particular trainload of coffee, mostly belonging to dictator Idi Amin, is worth six million dollars. As a group of scoundrels and international financiers hijack the train, the double and triple crosses pile up and the comic tension escalates in a brawling brew of buffoons, bumblers, beans and boxcars.
Book cover of Smoke
by Donald E. Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001

Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now.
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