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SheilaT

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21. Donald Westlake's books.

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 07:56 PM

Apr 2013

Lots of laugh out loud moments.

Of all of his novels I can think of only one that wasn't humorous, and that was "The Ax", which is rather grim. He also wrote under a lot of other names, the best known of which is Richard Stark, and they don't seem to have contained much humor, although I haven't read many of those.

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