Series:

Coronet Books

10 total works

Cover of Nobody's Perfect

Nobody's Perfect

by Donald E Westlake

Published 15 January 1977

Cover of Somebody Owes Me Money

Somebody Owes Me Money

by Donald E Westlake

Published 2 November 1970
SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet s working for the other, and to the dead man s beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother s murder "

Cover of Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers

by Donald E Westlake

Published 1 October 1972
The Grand Master of Mystery delivers "nerve-end-entertainment" when two of New York's finest set out to become two of New York's richest (Kirkus Reviews).

Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple longer than they can remember-or care to. They've been good cops, protecting the public and holding the line against crime and chaos in a city that has plenty of both. And all they have to show for it is a whole lot of nothing.

But now the partners have devised a scheme to make all their dreams come true: the perfect heist. Tom and Joe are going to rob the fat cats on Wall Street for millions and walk away clean. With the right connections and the proper execution, there's no way their plan can fail. And that's why they're so surprised when everything goes totally, hysterically wrong . . .

With Cops and Robbers, the three-time Edgar Award-winning author, named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, offers "another very hot and successful" novel with "a siren shrill finale" (Kirkus Reviews).

Praise for Donald E. Westlake
"Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists." -San Francisco Chronicle

"No writer can excel Donald E. Westlake." -Los Angeles Times

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Jimmy the Kid

by Donald E Westlake

Published 15 January 1974
Bungling burglar John Dortmunder and his merry band of thieves are back in another classic, comic crime novel from the award-winning author of the new hardcover Baby, Would I Lie? Dortmunder and his gang plan to kidnap precocious kid Jimmy Harrington with the help of a crime novel outlining the perfect caper.

Cover of Two Much

Two Much

by Donald E Westlake

Published 12 January 1976

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New York Dance

by Donald E Westlake

Published 1 January 1979

Cover of Help I am Being Held Prisoner
JAILED FOR A JOKE

It isn't easy going to jail for being a practical joker. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Kunt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late: he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose...

HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades.

Cover of Bank Shot

Bank Shot

by Donald E Westlake

Published 17 July 1972
With the help of an unusual set of cronies, bank robber John Dortmunder puts a set of wheels under a trailer that just happens to be the temporary site of the Capitalists' & Immigrants' Trust and hauls it away. But when the safe won't open and the cops get close, Dortmunder realizes he's got to find a place to ditch the "bank".

Cover of Brother's Keepers

Brother's Keepers

by Donald E Westlake

Published 12 August 1976
Unavailable since 1979, here is one of Westlake's best, just in time to tie in to the release of his April hardcover, Don't Ask. A Park Avenue monastery with an expired lease, a young Monk named Brother Benedict, a greedy real estate mogul, and his daughter with whom Brother Benedict is stricken are the ingredients for this sparkling mystery.

Cover of Up Your Banners

Up Your Banners

by Donald E Westlake

Published 7 September 1970