When Donald Westlake invented Parker, the iron-cold thief protagonist of the series Westlake writes under the pen name Richard Stark, he didn’t know that Parker would be one of the …
Month: November 2006
Crime novelist Donald Westlake is a man of many aliases—Samuel Holt, Tucker Coe, Curt Clark, pseudonyms picked up over the course of 100-odd published books—but two names stand out, his …
Published in The A.V. Club’s Twin Cities edition, November 9, 2006. It’s no longer online there, so I’ve reposted it in full here. Kill the Vultures ain’t slick, and that’s no …