by Donald E. Westlake · Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743613266
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«Mauvaises nouvelles» is the crime novel by Donald E. Westlake, published by Rivages in paperback (394 pages, in French).
John Dortmunder, a professional repeat offender, gets caught up in an absurd scheme: recovering the corpse of an Indian that someone has kidnapped. The job comes through his friend Andy Kelp, who has contacted the manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his associates over the internet. Dortmunder ends up digging in a Long Island cemetery.
Tenth installment in the Dortmunder series, originally published as «Bad News» in 2001. French translation by Jean Esch. Part of the Rivages/Noir collection, number 535.
For readers of crime fiction and black humor, especially for fans of the Dortmunder series.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.
