Mark Blumenthal (blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:13:29 -0600
Steve McHale writes,
> >
> One thing that strikes me about the DKA series is
how fast some of
> the stories move. You need to wear your seatbelt
when reading Gone No
> Forwarding or Dead Skip. On the other hand, 32
Cadillacs is where Gores
has
> great fun with DKA.
You're right about the earlier books. 32 Cadillacs,
with its inclusion of Westlake's characters from the
Dortmunder series is clearly less intense. It's meant to be
his tribute to the detective agency he worked for as well as
all real detectives. Aside from the humor it resembles the
later Stark books, Comeback and Backflash, where a more
mature writer sacrificifes some of the stripped down pace of
his earlier books to produce a fuller work. The big
difference being being that, given Parker's character, Stark
cannot allow any lightness in the books. Mark
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