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I'm a robber, John Dortmunder says, not a grave robber. Yet he soon finds himself in a Long Island cemetery, in the very dead of night, with dirt up to his knees. His old friend Andy Kelp is to blame--Andy Kelp and the Internet. For it was while ambling on the Net that Kelp met up with master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his nefarious companions, the flunked teacher Irwin Gabel and the Las Vegas showgirl Little Feather Redcorn. What these three have in mind is the amazing takeover of an upstate New York casino, and what they also envision is that Dortmunder and Kelp will not share in the ill-gotten gains, even though ill-gotten gains are Dortmunder's and Kelp's only source of income. Shovel in hand, Dortmunder wonders whose grave this is. And if he isn't very careful, and very alert, it could be his.… (mehr)
“John Dortmunder was a man on whom the sun shone only when he needed darkness.”
A good first sentence to a good first chapter of this book! One in which John pretends that he fell asleep in a store when it closed for the night! Pretty smart!
“This job has too many graveyards in it, he said. ‘He’ being Dortmunder. And definitely, he's right! This caper has to do with attempting to match a DNA sample with a corpse in order to try to inherit part of the rights to an "Indian" casino! Of course, this being Dortmunder, it doesn't go easy, or the way it was planned! Not even close!
It's not quite as funny as other books in this series, and there isn't as much action. But it's still John and friends, and still worth the read! Unfortunately, it is my last read in this series, which is a total bummer. Maybe in a few years I'll revisit the collection, and this time read them in order! ( )
Donald E. Westlake's Dortmunder series is always good value and Bad News doesn't disappoint. This caper involves Dortmunder and his gang swapping corpses at a grave yard and all the resulting shenanigans that comes with trying to run a scam about getting a Native American woman officially accepted as a different tribe. A lot of funny lines and situations and, for a change, Dortmunder's misfortunes aren't all encompassing. ( )
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I would like to dedicate this novel, with apologies, to all of the translators who've had to deal with my language in their languages over the years...
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite.Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
John Dortmunder was a man on whom the sun shone only when he needed darkness.
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite.Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
I'm a robber, John Dortmunder says, not a grave robber. Yet he soon finds himself in a Long Island cemetery, in the very dead of night, with dirt up to his knees. His old friend Andy Kelp is to blame--Andy Kelp and the Internet. For it was while ambling on the Net that Kelp met up with master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his nefarious companions, the flunked teacher Irwin Gabel and the Las Vegas showgirl Little Feather Redcorn. What these three have in mind is the amazing takeover of an upstate New York casino, and what they also envision is that Dortmunder and Kelp will not share in the ill-gotten gains, even though ill-gotten gains are Dortmunder's and Kelp's only source of income. Shovel in hand, Dortmunder wonders whose grave this is. And if he isn't very careful, and very alert, it could be his.
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A good first sentence to a good first chapter of this book! One in which John pretends that he fell asleep in a store when it closed for the night! Pretty smart!
“This job has too many graveyards in it, he said. ‘He’ being Dortmunder. And definitely, he's right! This caper has to do with attempting to match a DNA sample with a corpse in order to try to inherit part of the rights to an "Indian" casino! Of course, this being Dortmunder, it doesn't go easy, or the way it was planned! Not even close!
It's not quite as funny as other books in this series, and there isn't as much action. But it's still John and friends, and still worth the read! Unfortunately, it is my last read in this series, which is a total bummer. Maybe in a few years I'll revisit the collection, and this time read them in order! (