Re: RARA-AVIS: Donald Westlake, An Appreciation

From: sonny (sforstater@yahoo.com)
Date: 03 Jan 2009

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    as you know, the hunter (aka point blank and payback) was the first parker book written/published.

    --- On Sat, 1/3/09, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:

    > From: DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net>
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Donald Westlake, An Appreciation
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 1:42 PM
    > Jeff asked:
    >
    > "So, The Hunter is the second Paker novel?"
    >
    > According to Berkeley Medallion it was. They started their
    > numbering
    > with Slayground, which was the one new paperback they
    > published in their
    > short Violent World of Parker series (with that label in
    > the upper left
    > hand corner of each cover, along with the number they
    > assigned), then
    > followed it with four or five more, starting with Point
    > Blank (the title
    > they used for The Hunter, even though the movie was largely
    > forgotten in
    > those pre-home video days. The others were random choices,
    > too, no
    > order. I remember they published The Score as Killtown,
    > The Outfit,
    > maybe one or two of the others with Score in the title, but
    > not Man with
    > the Getaway Face or, I don't think, The Jugger.
    >
    > Mark
    >
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