Quotes About Richard Stark

I'm beginning to regret that suitcase, he said. I admit it freely. Money is a burden. I may write a monograph on the subject.

She smiled, looking pert, and said, "I love to be the center of attention." "The hell you do. That Gale Storm bit doesn't suit you, honey.

San Luis Potosí. The ruby in the forehead of Old May-hee-co.

You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of it. You want to take me to court?" "You're in court right now," Parker said.

Grofield said, "And you, knowing about the plan, have decided to go down to Acapulco on Friday and warn the General to be on the eary." "On the what?

The Parker series, by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. The University of Chicago Press has just reissued the complete series in trade paperback, and that's a good thing, because my own

A few hours after the news broke about the death of crime writer Donald E. Westlake, a newspaper asked me to write a tribute. In short order I did so, calling attention to his decades-long career, both under his own name and that of his primary alter ego, Richard Stark, who introduced the unsentimental antihero-heister Parker to the literary canon.