What Fiction are you reading this week, June 2, 2024

[Stardust Mirror]

20. Westlake is cataloged as Mystery but

it's the funniest writing I've ever found
he has a character named Dortmunder, a very pessimistic fellow for whom everything goes wrong, then gets worse from there. Don't worry, that's not a spoiler.

He was very successful in his writing career starting in the 1950s and several of his books were made into movies with mainstream actors (please don't judge Westlake by those movies, they're OK but not nearly as good as his books). Though seeing financial success he continued to write about a book a year for decades to come. I would get kinda pissed when I finished a new book of his because that meant I had to wait a whole year for another one! And then when he died I was really upset there would be no more.