1962--The Hunter (Point Blank), made into 1967 movie Point
Blank with
Lee Marvin as "Walker." Also scheduled for 1998 release as
Payback with
Mel Gibson
March 1963--The Man with the Getaway Face (The Steel
Hit)
1963--The Outfit, made into 1974 movie of the same title with
Robert
Duvall as "Earl Macklin"
December 1963--The Mourner
July 1964--The Score (Killtown)
July 1965--The Jugger (Made in USA), made into 1966 Jean-Luc
Godard film
Made in USA, cast list includes characters (not they
themselves) David
Goodis, Don Siegel and Richard Widmark. Damn, I wish I could
see this
movie in the states
1966--The Handle (Run Lethal), I'm pretty sure this goes
here, but i may
be after The Seventh
March 1966--The Seventh (The Split), made into the movie The
Split with
Jim Brown as "McClain"
1967--The Rare Coin Score
1967--The Green Eagle Score
1968--The Black Ice Score
1969--The Sour Lemon Score
1971--Deadly Edge
1969, 1971--Slayground (first chapter shared with The
Blackbird, below),
made into movie of same name with Peter Coyote as, for the
first time,
"Parker"
1972--Plunder Squad
1974--Butcher's Moon
1974--Child Heist, not really a novel it is the book which
the
Dortmunder Gang follows in Jimmy the Kid by Donald E.
Westlake.
Chapters alternate between Parker committing a kidnapping and
the
Dortmunder Gang screwing it up as they try to imitate
him
1997--Comeback
1998--someone on the list recently mentioned that there is a
new Parker
scheduled soon
Along with the Parker novels, Stark wrote four Grofield books
about
Parker's sometime partner in crime. These usually pick up
just after
Grofield and Parker have finished a job; they are a bit
lighter, a bit
more Westlake than the other Starks:
1967--The Damsel
1969--The Dame
1970--The Blackbird
1971--Lemons Never Lie
Also, my 1977 UK reprint of Butcher's Moon claims that five
Parker
novels had then been made into movies, so I am missing
one.
Hope this helps, but even more I hope the new movie is
popular enough to
bring them back into print.
Mark
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