Don’t Ask By Donald E. Westlake Mysterious Press, 327 pages, $18.95 When Robert Burns said “the best laid plans of mice and men oft gang a-gley,” the plans he was thinking of must… ...

Mystery author Donald E. Westlake dies at 75 Donald Westlake, shown in 2001, wrote under a variety of pseudonyms including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt and Edwin West, in part because he ...

Donald E. Westlake is dead. This simple sentence can’t even begin to encapsulate the enormity of this event. Because it also means Richard Stark has passed on too, as has Tucker Coe and Samuel ...