This prolific author died late last year, and was hailed in many quarters for his contribution to mystery fiction, writing under 14 pseudonyms, including Richard Stark, and Tucker Coe.
Writing as Morgan Cunningham, the cover blurb cheekily states: "I wish I had written this book!" - Donald E. Westlake.
From Wikipedia:
Donald Westlake was known for the great ingenuity of his plots and the audacity of his gimmicks. His writing and dialogue were lively. His main characters were fully rounded, believable, and clever. Westlake's most famous characters include the hard-boiled criminal Parker (appearing in fiction under the Richard Stark pseudonym) and Parker's comic flip-side John Dortmunder, the hard-luck criminal genius who originally began as Parker getting caught in a comic situation in the 1970 novel The Hot Rock.
His books include:
* Don't ask
* Smoke
* Baby, would I lie ? : a romance of the Ozarks
* What's the worst that could happen?
* Humans
* Somebody owes me money
* The ax
* Kahawa
Come in and see our display of his books.
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