Hey, remember last week? This is the the rest of that stuff: books from a few authors that I ordered via Alibris, from a whole bunch of used-book stores, for various reading projects. I'll get to all of these over the next year or three, I expect.
So first I have three books from Donald E. Westlake's Dortmunder series:
The second in the series, Bank Shot, in which Dormunder and his crew steal (not rob) a bank.
The one that was my favorite the first time through,
Drowned Hopes, a big book from 1990 about trying to retrieve a huge cache of valuables left buried thirty years ago - in a town that has since been abandoned, at the bottom of a reservoir.
Third from Westlake is
Bad News, the 2001 novel about a casino heist.
I also have two more serious detective novels from Ross Macdonald:
What seems to be a brand-new, printed-on-demand edition of his 1956 novel, The Barbarous Coast, which isn't what I'd expected from a used-book dealer but I'll definitely take it.
The other one is
The Blue Hammer, the last book in the series, from 1976. As I recall, the last two in the series are a bit thinner than the rest, but we'll see if I agree this time through.
And last are two books in the "Collector's Wodehouse" series - all of P.G. Wodehouse's roughly one hundred books, in a uniform trade dress, published in the early years of this century, which I half-collected once and lost thirty or forty of them to a flood.
First up is Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means collects two story-series from very early in Wodehouse's career. I've never read them, and don't expect much, but the point of a complete library is to include weird little-known things like these.
And then last in this batch of books is Wodehouse's 1921 humorous novel
A Gentleman of Leisure, which I also don't think I've ever read.
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