Parker Score: Run Lethal

NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui.

Returning, belatedly, to the Parker Mega Score—that stack of Coronet paperback editions of the Parker novels I acquired over the summer—we have Run Lethal, published in the UK by Coronet/Hodder Fawcett under a Raymond Hawkey-designed “bullet hole” double-cover in 1972—the second […]

Westlake Double Score: Killtown and The Score by Richard Stark (Parker #5, Berkley, 1973 / Avon, 1984)

I should probably apologise in advance for the essentially pointless nature of this post, but if nothing else it’ll afford a glimpse into my diseased, obsessive psyche…

This latest Westlake Score—or, more accurately, and as the title of this post suggests, Double Score—came from two separate British eBay sellers who coincidentally listed different editions […]