Hard Case Crime Novels: The Comedy Is Finished (Audiobook)

from dickmanikowski

Yet another book that I read further into before abandoning than I should have. I've enjoyed Westlake's novels about Dortmunder and his gang of misfit thieves, but this was an earlier novel that Westlake wasn't pleased with. He gave the unpublished manuscript to a friend, who had it published aft...

from MikeRhode

Odd book, unpublished for 40 years, in which a Bob Hope-based character is kidnapped. Not the first Westlake one should read.

from ikeman100

This was my first book by Westlake. Most of his books are fun and light crime novels. This one was not. It was very good. really enjoyed it. I have since read a couple of his lighter Dortmunder crime novels. They are light and funny. Westlake has a great sense of humor.

from DaveWilde

"The Comedy is Finished" is Westlake's final masterpiece. It is an incredibly well-crafted tale that stitches together storylines about fame and fortune, kidnapping, the end of the sixties, and the loss of ideals. It is a stupendous work and it is a novel that thoroughly transcends the world of c...

from DaveWilde

"The Comedy is Finished" is Westlake's final masterpiece. It is an incredibly well-crafted tale that stitches together storylines about fame and fortune, kidnapping, the end of the sixties, and the loss of ideals. It is a stupendous work and it is a novel that thoroughly transcends the world of c...