The Busy Body - by Donald E Westlake (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Merriment, mayhem and a plot that really keeps you guessing" from the Grand Master of Mystery and author of the John Dortmunder novels (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>).</b> <br> The corpse isn't anybody special--a low-level drug courier--but it has been so long since the organization's last grand funeral that Nick Rovito decides to give the departed a big send-off. He pays for a huge church, a procession of Cadillacs, and an ocean of flowers, and enjoys the affair until he learns the dead man is going to his grave wearing the blue suit. Rovito summons Engel, his right-hand man, and tells him to get a shovel. Inside the lining of the blue suit jacket is $250,000 worth of uncut heroin, smuggled back from Baltimore the day the courier died. When Engel's shovel strikes coffin, he braces himself for the encounter with the dead man. But the coffin is empty, the heroin gone, and Engel has no choice but to track down the missing body or face his boss's wrath.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Under any name, Westlake was a grandmaster." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> "Donald E. Westlake writes a comic novel so well it's a wonder he bothers with crime at all." --<i>Newsweek</i> "Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was one of the most prolific and talented authors of American crime fiction. He began his career in the late 1950s, churning out novels for pulp houses--often writing as many as four novels a year under various pseudonyms--but soon began publishing under his own name. His most well-known characters were John Dortmunder, an unlucky thief, and a ruthless criminal named Parker. His writing earned him three Edgars and a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Westlake's cinematic prose and brisk dialogue made his novels attractive to Hollywood, and several motion pictures were made from his books, with stars such as Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson. Westlake wrote several screenplays himself, receiving an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of <i>The Grifters</i>, Jim Thompson's noir classic. <br>
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