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This post doesn’t show up well on mobile device. Click here to view the image on its own. Dan Kearney of Joe Gores’ DKA series had a crossover with Parker and vice versa in Gores’ Dead Skip and Richard Stark’s Plunder Squad. Donald Westlake’s own Dortmunder had a crossover with Parker (sort of) in […]
Greetings! Those of you who follow the VWOP Twitter account have probably heard of Paperback Warrior. Paperback Warrior, as you can tell by the above image, is a website devoted to reviewing hard-boiled crime, mystery, men’s adventure, espionage, and western novels. Like the pulp novelists of yore, Eric and Tom crank ’em out, […] Title translation: The Statuette Rififi (Portugal) (19??) Title translation: The Cake. VWOP Portuguese-language correspondent Carlos explains: “Bolo” is also used in Portuguese as slang for the pile of money accumulated in the middle of the table in a card game (the betting money). The equivalent of the “pot” in poker games. Cover text translation: “Twelve assault an […] Publisher unknown (Brazil) (????) (English: Point Blank) Translation of cover text: Top: “Special Mystery Edition” / Subtitle: “The barbarous vengeance of a betrayed and robbed man!” This Brazilian cover is courtesy of reader Cesar. Over the coming days, I’ll be rolling out a number of Portuguese-language covers that he clued me in to. […] NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui. This Westlake Score may not be quite as exciting a proposition, or indeed acquisition, as the T. V. Boardman edition of Pity Him Afterwards I blogged about last week (for me anyway; who knows—perhaps it will be for you), but like that book […]
As you may not be aware because I did not give it nearly the coverage I should have, Darwyn Cooke and IDW Publishing have launched a companion line to their highly successful line of comic book adaptations of the Parker novels. They will be reprinting the original Richard Stark novels, each with ten […] I don’t suppose there’s any way to write this post and not mention that Chris Lyons and I have had our differences in the past. Some of them spilled out into public, and they were sometimes not pretty. However, his take on things Westlake is always interesting (even if I strenuously disagree with it […]
NB: A Version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui.
This, I fear, will be my final Violent World of Parker/Existential Ennui cross-post of 2013. The year is fast disappearing on me, and I can’t in all honesty see myself returning to Donald E. Westlake or Richard Stark […] Parker Mega Score finale: Richard Stark in British Thriller Book Cover Design of the 1970s and 1980s
NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui. If you missed the announcement on Existential Ennui on Friday, some (relatively) exciting news: I’ve established a brand new Existential Ennui permanent page: British Thriller Book Cover Design of the 1970s and 1980s A companion page to Beautiful British Book Jacket […] |
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