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	Encyclopedia: Donald E. Westlake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Edwin Westlake (born July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York), is a prolific American writer, with over a hundred books, specializing in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional bit of science fiction.
		Westlake is known for the great ingenuity of his plots and the audacity of his gimmicks.
		Westlake's most famous characters are the hard-boiled criminal Parker (written under the Richard Stark name) and Parker's comic flip-side John Dortmunder, the hard-luck criminal genius -- who originally began as Parker getting caught (to Westlake's surprise) in a comic situation in what became the novel The Hot Rock.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Donald-E.-Westlake (708 words)

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		Burke Devore, the protagonist of Donald E. Westlake's darkly comic novel The Ax, is that man. Middle-aged, with a daughter in college and a son in high school, Devore has devoted most of his life to working his way up within the specialty paper industry.
		What's so amazing is how Westlake manages to outdo himself with each book in the series.
		So Sara immerses herself in the kind of stories the Galaxy features: the staged birthday party for 100-year-old twins in a nursing home that must go on even though one of the twins dies the day before, the race for photos of a big TV star and his bride on their honeymoon.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /westlake.html (1657 words)

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		A bit of a comment from William L. DeAndrea's Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (Prentice Hall, 1994).
		The term hard-boiled has been around since WWI, during which (according to mystery novelist Donald E. Westlake) it was an adjective applied to the tough drill sergeants who made men out of boys and soldiers out of civilians.
		When the war ended, those soldiers turned back into civilians, popularizing the term hard- boiled into something referring to any person, or action, that reflected a tough, unsentimental point of view.
	noirtexas.com /new_page_3.htm (1173 words)

	Bibliography/Reference
		Essays on paperback writers Ed Lacy, Vin Packer, Jim Thompson, Harry Whittington, Marvin H. Albert, Charles Williams, Donald Hamilton, Peter Rabe, The Executioner series and Warren Murphy by people like Ed Gorman, Dick Lochte, Bill Crider, Marvin Lachman, Max Allan Collins, George Kelley, Loren D. Estleman and Donald E. Westlake.
		There are plenty of recipes in these two light-hearted (but frequently artery-clogging) volumes, with recipes and commentary from everyone from Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie right up to today's top writers, including Tony Hillerman, George Pelecanos, Anne Perry and Lillian Jackson Braun (or their characters).
		Highlights include Liza Cody's "Bacon Buttie,' Donald E. Westlake's "May's Mother's Tuna Casserole," Richard North Patterson's Sea Bass in Orange Sauce and Harlan Coben's "Myron's Potato Latkes." My only gripe is that Hannibal Lechter's recipes for "Shepherd's Pie and Baked Alaskan" have not been included.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/triv73.html (6068 words)

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