Killing Time is a town-tamer book, sort of. But the ending is
not the usual, plus the private eye already lives in the town
at the beginning.
Pity Him Afterwards (1964) is another hardboiled Westlake
title. A tale of a madman. It reminds me of Fredric
Brown.
I think Killy is just as hardboiled as the Tucker Coe books.
To me they are more like semi-hardboiled.
Ax is from Westlake's new hardboiled period, an excellent
book. Much in the same vein is The Hook, though not quite as
good.
Mercenaries is a mob story, from the inside. Westlake's first
book on his own name, If I remember it right.
Tapani Bagge
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