Smoking Gun Tag

How “Play Dirty” Did Richard Stark’s Parker Dirty I swear I never set out to write so much about Parker, the iconic thief who stomped his way through a whole bunch of Donald Westlake Richard Stark novels over the course of forty-odd years. Looking back, though, I realize I’ve written at least three essays about Parker for CrimeReads, along with various mentions in this column, in the Film Noir Foundation’s magazine, and so on. In any case, oops, I’m about to do it again, because I just sat through Shane Black’s “Play Dirty,”Read More