The only one I can think of is _Jimmy the Kid_ by Donald
Westlake, which includes chapters from a novel by Richard
Stark that the Dortmunder gang is using as a blueprint for
their caper. Needless to say, Dortmunder is no Parker. That's
particularly amusing, because Dortmunder *was* Parker in the
beginning. Westlake came up with an idea for a Parker novel
in which an object is stolen over and over again, but it
seemed too silly for Parker, so Westlake created Dortmunder
and the Gang Who Couldn't Steal Straight to do the job.
BobT
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RCsaltaire@aol.com Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 05:30:49 EDT To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: RARA-AVIS: Candyland
I've just finished reading Candyland which is the latest
novel in England by Evan Hunter/Ed McBain and is literally by
both of them.
The first half is by Hunter and concentrates on an architect
from LA who is in New York, pursuing his hobby which is sex.
This leads him to an experience in a brothel which links to
part II.
This is a police procedural around the death of one of the
hookers from the same brothel in which the architect is one
of the suspects. It has quite a good twist.
Candyland is a good, quick read and I like the conceit of
'two' authors, each of whom has a separate blurb on the dust
jacket and a separate list of his books. These are on two
opposite pages and make an impressive body of work.
Can anyone think of a similar device by an author?
Richard Coomber
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