Bibliography

RICHARD STARK

TUCKER COE

SAMUEL HOLT

ALAN MARSHALL

EDWIN WEST

CURT CLARK

FOR THE SCREENS

FILMS FROM BOOKS

* = sample book chapter or complete short story published on this site

D = Dortmunder story

SJ – Sara Joslyn story

P = Parker story

WG = Weekly Galaxy story

G = Grofield story

SH = Starship Hopeful Series

L = Abe Levine story

GC = Printed in The Getaway Car

 

WRITING AS DONALD WESTLAKE

NOVELS:
The Mercenaries
(aka The Smashers, The Cutie) *		 1960 Random House
Killing Time (aka The Operator) * 1961 Random House
361 * 1962 Random House
Killy 1963 Random House
Pity Him Afterwards 1964 Random House
The Fugitive Pigeon 1965 Random House
The Busy Body 1966 Random House
The Spy in the Ointment 1966 Random House
God Save the Mark 1967 Random House
Philip 1967 Thomas Y. Crowell
Who Stole Sassi Manoon? 1968 Random House
Somebody Owes Me Money * 1969 Random House
Up Your Banners 1969 Macmillan
The Hot Rock (D) 1970 Simon & Schuster
Adios Scheherazade 1970 Simon & Schuster
I Gave at the Office 1971 Simon & Schuster
Bank Shot (D) 1972 Simon & Schuster
Cops and Robbers 1972 M. Evans
Gangway (with Brian Garfield) 1973 M. Evans
Help I Am Being Held Prisoner 1974 M. Evans
Jimmy the Kid (D) 1974 M. Evans
Brothers Keepers 1975 M. Evans
Two Much 1975 M. Evans
Dancing Aztecs 1976 M. Evans
Nobody’s Perfect (D) 1977 M. Evans
Castle in the Air 1980 M. Evans
Kahawa 1981 Viking
Why Me (D) 1983 Viking
A Likely Story 1984 Penzler Books
High Adventure 1985 Mysterious Press
Good Behavior (D) 1985 Mysterious Press
High Jinx (with AbbyWestlake) 1987 Dennis McMillan
Transylvania Station (with Abby Westlake) 1987 Dennis McMillan
Trust Me on This (SJ, WG) 1988 Mysterious Press
Sacred Monster 1989 Mysterious Press
Drowned Hopes (D) 1990 Mysterious Press
The Perfect Murder (with Block, Caudwell, Hillerman and Lovesey) 1991 HarperCollins
Humans 1992 Mysterious Press
Don’t Ask (D) 1993 Mysterious Press
Baby, Would I Lie? (SJ) 1994 Mysterious Press
Smoke 1995 Mysterious Press
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (D) 1996 Mysterious Press
The Ax 1997 Mysterious Press
The Hook 2000 Mysterious Press
Bad News (D) * 2001 Mysterious Press
Put a Lid on It 2002 Mysterious Press
Money for Nothing * 2003 Mysterious Press
The Road to Ruin (D) 2004 Mysterious Press
Watch Your Back! (D) * 2005 Mysterious Press
What’s So Funny? (D) * 2007 Grand Central Publishing
Get Real (D) 2009 Grand Central Publishing
Memory * 2010 Hard Case Crime
The Comedy is Finished 2012 Hard Case Crime
Forever and a Death 2017 Hard Case Crime

STORY COLLECTIONS:
The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution and Other Fictions 1968 Random House
Enough (containing A Travesty & Ordo) 1977 M. Evans
Pièces Détachées (France) 1981 Nouvelle Éditions Oswald
Levine 1984 Mysterious Press
Tomorrow’s Crimes 1989 Mysterious Press
Horse Laugh and Other Stories (D) 1990 Eurographica
A Good Story and Other Stories 1999 Five Star Press
Thieves’ Dozen (D) * 2004 Mysterious Press
Hellcats and Honeygirls (with Lawrence Block) 2010 Subterranean Pres

SHORT FICTION:
Veronica * 1951 The Vincentian
My Father’s Chair * 1951 The Vincentian
And You * (poem) 1951 The Vincentian
Or Give Me Death 1954 Universe
The Blonde Lieutenant 1957 Rogue
Arrest * 1958 Manhunt
Fluorocarbons Are Here To Stay 1958 Science Fiction Stories
Everybody Killed Sylvia 1958 Mystery Digest
Matin’ Place (not by Grace Selacious) 1958 Escapade
The Devil’s Printer 1958 Mystery Digest
No Business Like… (as by Rolfe Passer) 1958 Mystery Digest
Sinner or Saint 1958 Mystery Digest
Decoy for Murder 1959 Mystery Digest
Death for Sale (aka Down-Payment for Murder as by Richard Stark) 1959 Mystery Digest
And Then He Went Away * 1959 Future Science Fiction
Journey to Death * 1959 Mystery Digest
One On A Desert Island 1959 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Ledge Bit 1959 Mystery Digest
Knife Fighter 1959 Guilty – Detective Story Magazine
The Best-Friend Murder (aka Intellectual Motivation) (L) 1959 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
An Empty Threat 1960 Manhunt
Travelers Far And Wee 1960 Original Science Fiction Stories
Fresh Out of Prison (aka You Put On Some Weight) 1960 Guilty Magazine
Friday Night 1960 Tightrope! Detective Magazine
Elephant Blues (as by Ben Christopher) 1960 77 Sunset Strip Magazine
Anatomy of an Anatomy 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Cat Killers 1960 Shock Magazine
Come Back, Come Back… (aka Man On A Ledge) (L) 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Good Night! Good Night! 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Man of Action 1960 Analog SFF
Never Shake a Family Tree 1961 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Risk Profession 1961 Amazing Stories
They Also Serve 1961 Analog SFF
Call Him Nemesis 1961 World of If
The Spy in the Elevator 1961 Galaxy
The Feel of the Trigger (L) 1961 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Meteor Strike 1961 Amazing Stories
A Time to Die 1962 Saint Mystery Magazine
A Toast to the Damned 1962 Off Beat Detective Stories
Look Before You Leap 1962 Analog SFF
Lock Your Door 1962 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Earthman’s Burden 1962 Galaxy
The Sound of Murder (L) 1962 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Question (with Laurence Janifer) * 1963 F & SF
Just The Lady We’re Looking For 1964 EQMM
The Death of a Bum (L) 1965 MSMM
The Letter 1965 MSMM
Stage Fright 1965 Saint Mystery Magazine
The Method * 1965 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Paid in Full * 1965 Swank
The Spoils System 1965 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Just One of Those Days * 1966 This Week
The Mother of Invention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
(aka The Mother of Invention)		 1966 Dapper
Teamwork 1966 Shell Scott Mystery Magazine
Domestic Intrigue 1966 The Saint
Devilishly * 1966 Signature
Cool O’Toole 1966 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Sincerest of Flattery (aka The Sincerest Form of Flattery) 1966 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
The Sweetest Man In The World 1967 EQMM
Sniff 1967 The Saint Detective Magazine
It 1968 Playboy
All Men Are Bea… 1968 Argosy
The Winner 1970 Nova 1
The Ultimate Caper * 1975 New York Times
In at the Death (aka This is Death) 1977 The Thirteenth Ghost Book
Ordo 1977 Enough (M. Evans)
A Travesty 1977 Enough (M. Evans)
The Girl of my Dreams 1978 The Midnight Ghost Book
The Mulligan Stew 1979 EQMM
Ask a Silly Question D 1981 Playboy
Interstellar Pigeon (SH) * 1982 Playboy
Re Porter 1982 EQMM
Dream a Dream * 1982 Cosmopolitan
Heaven Help Us (SH) * 1983 Playboy
Don’t You Know There’s A War On? (SH) * 1983 Playboy
The World’s a Stage (SH) * 1984 Playboy
Hydra * 1984 F & SF
After I’m Gone (L) 1984 EQMM
A Good Story 1984 Playboy
Breathe Deep 1985 Playboy
Hitch Your Spaceship to a Star (SH) * 1985 Playboy
Horse Laugh (D) 1986 Playboy
Here’s Looking At You (SH) * 1989 Playboy
Too Many Crooks (D) 1989 Playboy
The Dortmunder Workout, or Criminal Exercise (D) * 1990 The New York Times Magazine
A Midsummer Daydream (D) 1990 Playboy
Love in the Lean Years 1992 Playboy
Party Animal (D) 1992 Playboy
Last-Minute Shopping: A Tinsel Tale of Love and Larceny 1993 New York Times Book Review
Give Till it Hurts (D) * 1993 The Mysterious Bookshop
Jumble Sale (D) 1994 The Armchair Detective
Skeeks (WG) 1995 Playboy
The Burglar and the Whatsit 1996 Playboy
Take It Away 1997 MHCMM
Now What? (D) 1999 Playboy
Art & Craft (D) 2000 Playboy
Spectacles 2001 Playboy
Come Again? 2001 The Mysterious Press
Fugue For Felons (D) 2004 Thieves Dozen
Walking Around Money (D) 2005 Transgressions

NON-FICTION BOOKS:
Elizabeth Taylor (as by John B. Allan) 1961 Monarch Books
Under an English Heaven 1972 Simon & Schuster
The Getaway Car (Collection, Edited by Levi Stahl) * 2014 University of Chicago Press

SHORT NON-FICTION:
The Vision Comes True When You Arrive at Bernkastle * 1956 Raider 36th Ftr-Intcp Wing Pictorial Magazine
36 Plot Nots * 1959 Writer’s Digest
Unproud Papas * 1960 Nugget
Break-Out (GC) 1961 Ed McBain’s Mystery Book
Behold a Pale Horse (Movie Review) * 1965 Seventh Art
Book Introduction (GC) 1971 A New Leaf
In Anguilla It’s the Spirit of ’71 1971 NY Times Magazine
Love Stuff: Cops and Robbers Style (GC) 1972 Los Angeles Times
Law and Order (Book Review) * 1973 Business Week
I Made It Myself (Book Review) 1973 NY Times Book Review
Motoring * 1973 NY Times Book Review
Hearing Voices in My Head (GC) 1977 Murder Ink
Tangled Webs for Sale: Best Offer (GC) 1978 I, Witness
Book Introduction * 1981 The Hunter
Murder on the High Seas * 1981 Games
The Box Rebellion * 1982 Harper’s
Belize: Will it be another Falkland Islands? 1982 NY Times Magazine
The Joys of Traveling Heavy (with Abby Adams) * 1984 Travel & Leisure
Amsterdam 1984 Travel & Leisure
Coming Home is Half the Fun (with Abby Adams) * 1984 Travel & Leisure
A Little Time to Kill * 1984 Geo
The Hardboiled Dicks (GC) * 1984 The Armchair Detective
Moon Over Maui (Travel Article) 1985 GQ
John D. MacDonald: A Remembrance (GC) 1987 Mystery Scene Reader
Book Introduction (Fredric Brown Collection) 1987 Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter
I See by My Outfit * 1989 Mystery Writers Annual (MWA Awards)
Peter Rabe (GC) 1989 Murder off the Rack
The Tarnished Knight 1990 The Armchair Detective
Book Introduction 1990 The New Edgar Winners
Book Foreword (GC) 1991 Thurber on Crime
Havana: Down But Is It Out? * 1992 Travel & Leisure
Mickey Spillane * 1995 Mystery Writers Annual (MWA Awards)
Sister Mary Carmel Marches On * 1996 WGA Awards Program
Anguilla * 1996 Islands
A Good Family Man (Book Review) 1997 NY Times Book Review
Criminal (Overrated/Underrated) 1998 American Heritage
Tricksters, Lovable and Otherwise [External Link] 1998 The New York Times
A Pseudonym Returns From an Alter-Ego Trip, With New Tales to Tell (GC) 2001 The New York Times
Reading the President [External Link] 2002 The Weekly Standard

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WRITING AS RICHARD STARK

NOVELS:
The Hunter (aka Point Blank, Payback) (P) 1962 Pocket Books
The Man With the Getaway Face (aka Steel Hit) (P) 1963 Pocket Books
The Outfit (P) 1963 Pocket Books
The Mourner (P) 1963 Pocket Books
The Score (aka Killtown) (P) 1964 Pocket Books
The Jugger (P) 1965 Pocket Books
The Seventh (aka The Split) (P) 1966 Pocket Books
The Handle (aka Run Lethal) (P) 1966 Pocket Books
The Damsel (G) 1967 Macmillan
The Rare Coin Score (P) 1967 Gold Medal
The Green Eagle Score (P) 1967 Gold Medal
The Dame (G) 1968 MacMillan
The Black Ice Score (P) 1969 Gold Medal
The Sour Lemon Score (P) 1969 Gold Medal
Deadly Edge (P) 1969 Random House
The Blackbird (G) 1969 MacMillan
Slayground (P) 1971 Random House
Lemons Never Lie (G) * 1971 World
Plunder Squad (P) 1972 Random House
Butcher’s Moon (P) 1974 Random House
Comeback (P) 1997 Mysterious Press
Backflash (P) 1998 Mysterious Press
Flashfire (P) * 2000 Mysterious Press
Firebreak (P) 2001 Mysterious Press
Breakout (P) * 2002 Mysterious Press
Nobody Runs Forever (P) 2004 Mysterious Press
Ask the Parrot (P) 2006 Mysterious Press
Dirty Money (P) * 2008 Grand Central

SHORT STORIES:
Birth of a Monster 1959 Super Science Fiction
The Last Ghost 1959 Mystery Digest
The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution 1960 AHMM
Just a Little Impractical Joke * 1961 AHMM

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WRITING AS TUCKER COE

NOVELS
Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death * 1966 Random House
Murder Among Children * 1967 Random House
Wax Apple 1970 Random House
A Jade in Aries 1970 Random House
Don’t Lie to Me 1972 Random House

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WRITING AS SAMUEL HOLT

NOVELS:
One Of Us Is Wrong 1986  Tor
I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That 1986  Tor
What I tell You Three Times Is False 1987  Tor
The Fourth Dimension Is Death 1989  Tor

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WRITING AS ALAN MARSHALL

NOVELS:
All My Lovers 1959 Tower Publications
Backstage Love 1959 Tower Publications
Sally 1959 Tower Publications
Man Hungry 1959 Tower Publications
All The Girls Were Willing 1960 Tower Publications
The Wife Next Door 1960 Tower Publications
Virgin’s Summer 1960 Tower Publications
A Girl Called Honey (with Lawrence Block) 1960 Tower Publications
So Willing (with Lawrence Block) 1960 Tower Publications
All About Annette 1960 Tower Publications
Off Limits 1961 Pert Publications
Call Me Sinner 1961 Pert Publications
The Sin Drifter 1962 Pert Publications
Sin Prowl 1963 Corinth Publications
Passion Doll 1964 Corinth Publications
The Sin Losers 1965 Corinth Publications

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WRITING AS EDWIN WEST

NOVELS:
Young and Innocent 1960 Monarch Books
Campus Doll 1961 Monarch Books
Brother and Sister 1961 Monarch Books
Strange Affair 1962 Monarch Books
Campus Lovers 1963 Monarch Books

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WRITING AS CURT CLARK

NOVEL:
Anarchaos 1966 Ace Books

SHORT STORY:
Nackles * 1964 Fantasy & SciFi Mag

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WRITING AS JOHN DEXTER

NOVEL:
No Longer a Virgin 1960 Nightstand Books

 

CO-WRITING AS ANDREW SHAW

NOVEL:
Sin Hellcat (with Lawrence Block) 1962 Nightstand Books

 

CO-WRITING AS BARBARA WILSON

NOVEL:
The Pleasures We Know (with Laurence Janifer) 1964 Domino Books (Lancer)

 

WRITING AS TIMOTHY J. CULVER

NOVEL:
Ex Officio 1970  M. Evans and Co. Inc.

 

WRITING AS J. MORGAN CUNNINGHAM

NOVEL:
Comfort Station 1973  Signet

 

WRITING AS JUDSON JACK CARMICHAEL

NOVEL:
The Scared Stiff 2002  Carroll & Graf

CO-WRITING AS P.N. CASTOR

SHORT SERIAL:
The Perils of the Sky Rangers (with Dave Foley) * 1966 Cavalier Magazine

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FOR THE SCREENS
Feel of the Trigger (story) 1962 87th Precinct (TV Series)
One on an Island (story) 1968 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series)
Cops and Robbers (screenplay) 1973 Original Screenplay (novelized)
Express to Terror (story) 1979 Supertrain (TV Pilot)
Hot Stuff (screenplay) 1979 Original Screenplay
The Stepfather (story/screenplay) 1987 Original Screenplay
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (teleplay) 1987 TV Movie
Why Me? (screenplay) 1990 DEW Novel
The Grifters (screenplay) 1990 Jim Thompson Novel
Fly Paper (teleplay) 1995 Fallen Angels (TV Series)
Ripley Under Ground (screenplay) 2005 Patricia Highsmith Novel
The Stepfather (story) 2009 Original Story (remake)

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FILMS FROM BOOKS
Made In USA (France) 1966 The Jugger
The Busy Body 1967 The Busy Body
Point Blank 1967 The Hunter
Mise a Sac, aka Pillaged (France) 1967 The Score
The Split 1968 The Seventh
The Hot Rock 1972 The Hot Rock
Cops And Robbers 1973 Cops And Robbers
The Outfit 1973 The Outfit
Bank Shot 1974 Bank Shot
Come ti Rapisco il Pupo (Italy) 1976 Jimmy the Kid
Jimmy the Kid 1982 Jimmy the Kid
Slayground 1983 Slayground
Le Jumeau (France) 1984 Two Much
Why Me? 1990 Why Me?
Two Much 1995 Two Much
La Divine Poursuite (France) 1997 Dancing Aztecs
Payback 1999 The Hunter
Jimmy the Kid (Germany) 1999 Jimmy the Kid
A Slight Case of Murder (TV Film) 1999 A Travesty (in Enough)
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? 2001 What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
The Hook (France) 2004 The Hook
Ordo (France) 2004 Ordo (short story)
Le Couperet 2005 The Ax
Payback: Straight Up – The Director’s Cut 2006 The Hunter
Parker 2012 Flashfire

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