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Rififi (Brazil) (19??) Title translation: The Case of the Black Diamonds The cover text is a translation of the “Here’s Parker!” blurb from the Gold Medal first edition. A previous version of this post mistakenly referred to this edition as being from Brazil. […]
This will be my last post for The Violent World of Parker for a little while—for reasons I’ll be outlining on Existential Ennui before too long—so as an adieu, let’s have a quick Westlake Score, in the shape of a 1986 Allison & Busby hardback edition of The Black Ice Score (dust […]
NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui. So apparently there’s some movie out in the States starring Jason Statham and based on the nineteenth novel in a twenty-four-book series featuring a cold-hearted taciturn career criminal. Dunno what that’s all about, but whatever it is, I’m certainly not about […]
NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui. Last week I posted a Westlake Score—a 1969 Hodder Fawcett/Coronet paperback of Donald “Richard Stark” Westlake’s Parker novel The Sour Lemon Score—which, for me, completed a run of British first editions of the Parkers—i.e. those editions Coronet published in the UK […] Earlier in the week, at the end of this post on the review slip in Jeffrey Goodman’s copy of the 1967 Gold Medal edition of Point Blank!, I mentioned that seeing that review slip helped me make a connection that answered a question I’d been pondering for a while, and that as a consequence […] Here’s cover number two from the upcoming batch of University of Chicago reprints. |
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