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Baby, Would I Lie?
Sara and Jack are back! Now doing Real Journalism, Sara is sent to Branson, MO to observe the trial of a famous country and western singer - for murd...

Brothers Keepers
Brother Benedict is a monk of an order that doesn't believe in travel. But when the order's monastary is sold, travel he does - to do battle with gre...

Dancing Aztecs
When a valuable statue, worth millions, is mixed in with a bunch of plaster copies and shipped to New York, everyone is on its trail - especially a sm...



Don't Ask
Dortmunder and crew have to steal a bone, a saint's femur, to help a new nation gain admission to the UN. When the theft goes awry and Dortmunder is ...

Drowned Hopes
Dortmunder's old cell mate, Tom, is released from jail and wants help recovering a stash of 750k. Problem - in the years he was in jail, the state of...

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God Save the Mark
Donald E. Westlake Forge, Jan 2004, 14.95 ISBN: 0765309181 Copy editor Fred Fitch is so famous as the king of marks, con artists come from ever...

Good Behavior
A robbery goes wrong, and Dortmunder is trapped in a nunnery. The nuns aren't going to tell - provide Dortmunder finds a way to rescue their newest m...

Money for Nothing
Donald E Westlake Mysterious, Apr 2003, 24.95, 294 pp. ISBN: 0892967870 Advertising executive Josh Redmont waits for the ferry to take him to F...

Nobody's Perfect
A wealthy spendthrift hires Dortumnder and gang to steal his own painting (insurance fraud), and they do. But things gang agley, as usual, and sudden...

Put A Lid On It
Francis Xavier Meehan is a thief - normally, a pretty good one. But some unforeseen problems with his last job have landed him in a federal prison (t...

The Hook
Take two professional writers -- a bestselling superstar with writer's block, and a longtime author with dying sales (he's published under two pseudon...

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The Hot Rock
In this, the first Dortmunder novel, Dortmunder and his crew are hired to steal a famous emerald. And they do - or at least attempt to - over and ove...

Trust Me on This
Sara Joslyn used to be a normal reporter for a small New England newspaper; when it closed, she took a job at the Galaxy, the world's largest supermar...

What's the Worst That Could Happen?
On a simple burglery job, Dortmunder is surprised by the householder, a super rich entrepeneur, who steals Dortmunder's ring from off his finger. Dor...

Why Me
During a routine burglery at a small-time jewelry store, Dortmunder accidentally steals the Byzantine Fire, a ruby of immense historical and political...

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