Somebody owes me money

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Title:

Somebody owes me money

Author:

Westlake, Donald E. author.

Series:

Hard case crime book

Series Number:

HCC-044.

Summary:

When cab driver Chet Conway goes to collect his winnings on a horse race, he finds his bookie lying dead on the living room floor.

General Note:

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1969.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Taxicab drivers -- Fiction.

Bookmakers (Gambling) -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Hard Case Crime,

Publication Date:

2011

1969

ISBN:

9780857683571

9780857687944

Publication Information:

Call Number:

WESTLAK

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SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING.

Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor.

Chet knows he had nothing to do with it - but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to the dead man's beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother's murder...

Author Notes

Author Donald E. Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 12, 1933. He attended colleges in New York, but did not graduate. He wrote more than 100 novels and 5 screenplays throughout his lifetime. He also wrote under numerous pseudonyms including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, and Samuel Holt. Almost 20 of his novels were adapted into films and he created the television series, The Father Dowling Mysteries. He is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Grifters. He was also named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1993. He died of a heart attack on December 31, 2008 at the age of 75.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Library Journal Review

In this welcome rerelease of three-time Edgar Award winner Westlake's 1969 novel, Chet Conway, a New York cabby with a taste for betting, gets stuck in the middle of a mob war. This is a simple world, one in which the erudite, bumbling, wise-cracking protagonist can end up with both the money and the girl. British actor/narrator Stephen Thorne voices Conway just right, making him immensely likable. Recommended for public libraries and other recreational fiction collections. [Discs indexed inaudibly at the start of each chapter and at regular intervals throughout; audio clip available through www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com.--Ed.]--I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Technical Coll., Boone, IA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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