Jim Doherty asks:
>
> And now that I think about it, I didn't like Richard
Stark's *Butcher's
Moon* as
> well as the shorter Parker novels that led up to it.
I haven't read
*Comeback* or
> *Backflash* yet. How do they stand up?
>
When this was discussed I said I still liked the old stripped
down Parkers best, but others felt his new longer books
showed his growth as a writer.
To me it's interesting that Westlake is best known to the
general public for his light humorous books, yet as Stark and
Coe as well as some of his early books, The Ax and the
screenplay of the Grifters, he never reveals a streak of
romance or sentimentality that is present in most who are
better known as hard boiled athors..
Mark
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