Re Brad and Mark's comments on Richard Stark:
Not to toot my own horn (actually, tooting my own horn is
EXACTLY what I'm doing), I wrote a story called
"The Ghost of Dillinger" in which the villain was a
professional armed robber named Karper. It was published in a
small-press anthology entitled TALES FROM THE RED LION.
The idea was that each story in the book was supposed to be
set at a popular Chicago pub called the Red Lion. As it
happens, the Red Lion is right across the street from the
Biograph (where John Dillinger lost a shoot-out with FBI
agents), I got the idea of pitting my cop-hero against a
modern-day Dillinger.
Then I thought, "Why spend time and effort creating a
modern-day Dillinger when Donald Westlake's already done it?"
So I wrote Mr. Westlake, received permission to paly in his
backyard, and proceeded to write my story which was published
in due course.
If anyone's interested, TALES FROM THE RED LION can be
ordered at:
JIM DOHERTY
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