Westlake Score and review: Murder Among Children by Tucker Coe

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

Let’s return to the novels Donald E. Westlake wrote under the nom de plume Tucker Coe in the 1960s and ’70s, all of which star disgraced former cop Mitchell Tobin. I reviewed the first of those, 1966’s Kinds of Love, Kinds […]

Review: Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death, by Tucker Coe

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

After the excitement of last week, it’s back down to earth with a bump, with a review of a novel that I showcased as a Westlake Score on Existential Ennui all the way back in September 2010. First published in the […]

“The Many Faces of Donald E. Westake”: Extensive 1988 interview from The Armchair Detective

Thanks to reader Colin, we can now read and enjoy this in-depth interview with Donald Westlake from the Fall 1988 issue of The Armchair Detective.

The interview was conducted by the late mystery writer William L. DeAndrea, who had previously expressed his admiration by penning an introduction to a library-oriented edition of The Score.

At sixteen […]