Dortmunder novels
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1970. | CLOUD LIBRARY | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, | 192 p. | Available Online Online |
Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper "filled with action and imagination" (The New York Times Book Review).
John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a $500,000 emerald
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2011 | OverDrive | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection | ||
2011. | CLOUD LIBRARY | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, | 202 p. | Available Online Online | |
1972. | CLOUD LIBRARY | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, | 202 p. | Available Online Online |
A crew of thieves hopes to hijack a mobile home full of money in this crime caper from "the funniest man in the world" (The Washington Post).
John Dortmunder has been working an encyclopedia-selling scam while waiting for his next big heist. Unfortunately, his latest mark seems to be wise to the con, and he has to cut his sales pitch short and make a quick escape.
But opportunity awaits: Main Street bank has temporarily
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2013 | OverDrive | HighBridge | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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2012 | OverDrive | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
A kidnapping plan cribbed from a crime novel goes hilariously wrong for gang boss John Dortmunder—from the Edgar Award–winning author of Bank Shot.
When his "friend" Andy Kelp has a plan, career criminal John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. Kelp's schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a book!
The
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2013 | OverDrive | HighBridge | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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2011 | OverDrive | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
It would take a miracle to keep Dortmunder out of jail. Though he cased the electronics store perfectly, the cops surprised him, turning up in the alley just as he was walking out the back door, a television in each hand. Already a two-time loser, without divine intervention he faces
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A hapless thief is drafted by a gang of nuns in need, in a novel by an Edgar Award winner who "has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists" (San Francisco Chronicle).
It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of
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2011 | OverDrive | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly).
In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally free,
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2001 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
From Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake comes the eagerly anticipated return of unlucky master crook John Dortmunder.
Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when Andy Kelp relays the offer of a grand to help dig up a grave in a far-flung cemetery, he balks...until he begins to wonder just why Fitzroy Guilderpost, criminal mastermind, wants to pull a switcheroo of two 70-years-dead Indians. Central to the
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2006 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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2007 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
In this "furiously funny" new novel from Donald Westlake, career thief John Dortmunder is back to steal a fleet of vintage cars from a corrupt CEO (New York Times).
The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined.
The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing.
The catch?
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2006 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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2008. | CLOUD LIBRARY | Grand Central Publishing, | 416 p. | Available Online Online |
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2009 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
However, being caught red-handed is inevitable in Dortmunder's next production, when a TV producer convinces this thief and his merry gang to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees to find a way to keep the show...
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2007 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
Feating Donald E. Westlake's hapless hero, John Dortmunder, this original compilation of short stories ties in to Westlake's latest Dortmunder hardcover, The Road to Ruin.
It's all Dortmunder, all the time, in this long-awaited collection representing one of the finest achievements in crime fiction. Chosen from hundreds of stories and decades of work, this is the first time that Westlake has offered a compilation of his short
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