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The Method When Drusilla Meerschaum married Rick Tandem, she was in the throes of infatuation. Drusilla, a tall, willowy girl had swirled gracefully and blithely through finishing school, junior college, college and “coming out.” Pampered by her wealthy parents, the culmination of a blood-line beginning in an unmentioned past, in smuggling, slave-trading, privateering and profiteering, her world was cool, Read More …
Hydra “I’m afraid that’s the church again,” Carrie Morton said. “Greg, push on.” “That’s all right, I like it,” Fay White told her, being polite, but Greg Morton had already pushed the bar on the slide projector–chip-chock–and after a brief interval of rectangular white, the wall reblossomed into yet another view of the same small concrete-bhock church roughly painted Read More …
The whole story fits on one NY Times Magazine page and is viewable in the gallery below. Click on the “view full size” link in the lower right for easier reading. Not available Back to list
Rolfe Passer was a real person who was the assistant editor for Mystery Digest when this story was published. There is no explanation as to why it was published under Passer’s name, especially since there were no other Donald Westlake stories in the same issue, but it was, in fact, written by Don. The best guess offered by Lawrence Block Read More …
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The complete story is printed below and also available as published in the photo gallery, in English and German. Just One of Those Days Harry came into the motel room as I was putting my shoulder holster on. “Forget it, Ralph,” he said. I looked at him. “Forget it? What do you mean, forget it?” He took off his coat Read More …
One of two stories first published in the same mystery magazine (back-to-back, no less) under different names: Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake and this one, as by Richard Stark. Just a Little Impractical Joke Harry Chesterton, murderer, surveyed the scene of carnage. Everything was in place, everything was right. Miriam lay sprawled on her tummy Read More …
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