James wrote:
"Didn't Westlake also write a book about real criminals using
a fictional crime as the basis for a caper? And to make the
joke more convoluted, the fictional crime was from a Richard
Stark book?"
Stark's Child Heist is copied in Westlake's Jimmy the Kid;
chapters alternate between Parker doing it right and the
Dortmunder Gang screwing it up. To make it even more
convoluted, . . .
[VERY MILD SPOILER]
. . . the book ends with letters between Stark and his lawyer
about suing the maker of a movie about the "real life "
crime.
Mark
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