Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer) (Dec 2008)

Subject: RE: Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer) (Dec 2008)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:17 AM

I'll miss him too, along with Dortmunder, Kemp and the other petty criminals.

There was a non-Dortmunder book by him which left a legacy to me and the DH. It is 'Our two brains beat as one,' which means that we had the same idea at the same time.

Subject: RE: Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer) (Dec 2008)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:37 PM

A brilliant writer and a very nice person. He'll be missed.

Subject: RE: Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer) (Dec 2008)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:24 AM

I've read or seen a fair bit of his work often under his various pseudonyms. RIP Mr. Westlake.

Subject: RE: Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 09:06 PM

My father was a fan of his. I have been selling a lot of his paperback mysteries on eBay and those went early.

SRS

Subject: Obit: Donald Westlake (Writer)
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 08:49 PM

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Westlake, a prolific author considered one of the most successful and versatile mystery writers in the United States, has died. He was 75. Westlake collapsed from an apparent heart attack as he headed to New Year's Eve dinner while vacationing in Mexico, his wife, Abigail, told the New York Times.