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Category: Donald Westlake

Thank you, Donald

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Lifeline

I lost a special friend (or perhaps a quirky uncle) with the passing of Donald Westlake yesterday. I wish I were speaking of a literal friendship. It would have been a wonderful takeaway from my experience in adapting his novel Trust Me on This for our stage in 2003. But the truth is we met […]

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Donald Westlake

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Lifeline

Sad news today.  Comic crime novelist, Donald Westlake, is dead at 75.  He wrote about a gazillion novels and numerous screenplays and is considered one of the best mystery writers of our time.  Many of us at Lifeline got to meet Mr. Westlake and his wife Abby Adams in 2003 when they came to see […]

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Posted in Donald Westlake, Posts by Dorothy, Trust Me On This

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