Agreed, thanks Charles for releasing some hard to find early Westlakes.
So are some of the harder boiled and/or noir Westlakes?
His Richard Stark/Parker books, his Tucker Coe books, of course. Killing Time. The Hard Case reissues. The Ax.
Others?
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:59:23 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Westlake's Memory
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "hardcasecrime" <editor@...> wrote:
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> > > Did he leave behind an outline as well?
> >
> > I don't know this for sure, but it would amaze me if he did. He was not
> > one to outline, and it's not like he knew he was about to die.
> >
> > That doesn't mean another author couldn't be brought in to finish the
> > book, and any of the ones people have named would have no problem
> > working without an outline. But so little of the book exists that it
> > would really be like writing a book from scratch (not unlike Parker's
> > POODLE SPRINGS, which had only a chapter or two as a starting point).
> >
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> I think Parker did a good job with that novel. No matter what he did, he was going to catch a fair amount of flak...
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> And while we are talking about Westlake let me thank Charles for republishing hard to find and long out of print novels by Westlake. It's a great gift to us hardboiled fans.
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> More about Westlake: I have been rereading the "late" Parkers, most recently Ask the Parrot, and thoroughly enjoying them. I do like the later Parker, running for his life and not controlling the situation as much as he used to do.
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> Best,
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> mrt
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