Donald E Westlake
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Tempted to find a highly valuable, seven-hundred-pound chess set, hapless crook John Dortmunder musters his merry band of fellow ne'er-do-wells on a haphazard treasure hunt that prompts his investigation of Russia's last czar.
2) Get real
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Donald E. Westlake's Get Real, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief and the current object of his attention: laughs "land on every page" (New York Times).
Getting caught red-handed is inevitable when a TV producer convinces a thief named John Dortmunder — and his merry gang — to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees...
Getting caught red-handed is inevitable when a TV producer convinces a thief named John Dortmunder — and his merry gang — to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees...
3) Bad news
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
All John Dortmunder and his old pal, Andy, have to do is dig up a grave, switch a couple of corpses, and close it up again. But John can't help wondering why Fitzroy Guilderpost would pay $1,000 just to switch a couple of 70-years-dead indians.
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 9
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
On Long Island, a media tycoon catches a burglar in his house and relieves him of a nice-looking ring. The novel describes the comic adventures as the burglar, John Dortmunder, stalks the tycoon to recuperate his property. By the author of Don't Ask.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995, c1967
Language
English
Description
Fred Fitch is a man who is both pure of heart and substance but utterly credulous. If there is a scam operating anywhere--his rooming house where the General needs a loan to print his revelation of the secret history of the government, the street where the Little Sisters of the Poor are raising funds for the homeless, or just about anywhere in between--Fred finds it or it finds Fred to the same uncertain end. Fred even has his own contact, Reilly,...