News for week ending 2010-07-31

NYT’s David Kehr takes a quick look at two new DVD box sets of noir films: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/movies/homevideo/18kehr.html # Darwyn Cooke’s Parker: The Hunter snags the Eisner Award for best adapted work. http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.php # Upcoming anthology Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop will feature the Dortmunder story, “Give Till it Hurts.” http://bit.ly/dofu49 # Rest in Peace, […]

Meet the mourners

(I am indebted to Book Glutton, who is responsible for much of the research in this post.)

[Parker] motioned them in. Bett came in first, and her father followed, clutching the book protectively to his chest. It was a large, slender book with a red binding and a picture on […]

The Mourner page rewritten

I have expanded and almost completely rewritten the page on The Mourner. To celebrate, here’s this Finnish cover of The Mourner from 1984. According to Google Translate, the title means “Avenger,” the blurb is “Underworld lone wolf is back!,” and the banner is likely something to do with violence. As always, translation help is […]

Cover art score: Young and Innocent

Ask and ye shall receive! Here is the full cover art for the second edition of Donald Westlake’s pseudonymous Young and Innocent, which is likely exactly the same as the first edition’s.

Many thanks to reader Seth for the great images.

Young and Innocent is available on eBook from Fictionwise.

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More Westlake sleaze: Young and Innocent

Fictionwise has just released its second Donald Westlake sleaze novel on e-book, and at a bargain price–1961’s Young and Innocent, written as Edwin West.

Let’s just hope the e-book is copyedited better than the description at the website:

Anita–an innocent, unawakened girl caught up in New Your’s smart publishing set ? Lavinia–her older but […]

Relic of a lost era

I found this bookmark in an old paperback I grabbed off my bookshelf a couple of days ago.

When I moved to Austin in 1996, there were three bookstores where a lover of crime fiction could achieve Nirvana–Austin Books, Adventures in Crime and Space, and Mysteries & More. And then time passed.

Mark Finn […]

Site addition: Westlake bibliography

Finally got around to it!

I’m pleased to announce the addition of a Donald Westlake bibliography to The Violent World of Parker. It’s accessible from the tab at the top.

I’ve written some comments on the page regarding what’s there, what’s missing, and where I need […]

A third film version of Jimmy the Kid?

In the early days of this site (2000), I had a couple of brief exchanges with Donald Westlake. One of them went like this (excerpted from longer e-mails):

DEW: What do you mean, two movies of JIMMY THE KID? If I knew how to ubderline [sic] on this despicable machine, I would […]

News for week ending 2010-07-24

NPR is hosting online voting for the 100 best thrillers, and Slayground is a nominee: http://n.pr/9FbHwZ # Abigail Westlake is “a very good landlady”: http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/?id=1978 # The Mighty Blowhole–A Guide to Hard Case Crime, Vol. 1: http://mightyblowhole.blogspot.com/2010/07/guide-to-hard-case-crime-vol-1.html # Belated birthday greetings (on my part) to Donald Westlake: http://cognitive-diss.blogspot.com/2010/07/dads-birthday.html # We Are Scientists’ Keith Murray […]

Cover art score: Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake

When I was doing my initial writeup on Subterranean Press’ upcoming omnibus volume of three vintage Lawrence Block/Donald Westlake sleaze novels, Hellcats and Honeygirls, I found the original covers for two of the included books, A Girl Called Honey and So Willing. I wasn’t able to find the original cover art for the third […]