17 Top crime books like Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

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Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's…

If you liked the crime plot in Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Flashfire (Parker, #19)

By: Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"This is crazy," he said. "You don't just shoot people." "Yes I do," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Flashfire (Parker, #19)

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2. Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Book by read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said."

-Richard Stark, Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

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3. Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Tobin is a hard-nosed, disgraced ex-cop who spends his days building a wall around his back y… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

By: Richard Stark

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Backflash (Parker, #18)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"

-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)

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6. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

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7. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

By: Richard Stark

4.31

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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10. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

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11. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

12. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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13. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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14. The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Un… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook

15. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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16. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

Cover of Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) by Richard Stark

17. Plunder Squad (Parker, #15)

By: Richard Stark

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder and dove… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

18. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

19. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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20. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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21. Murder Among Children (The Mitchell Tobin Mysteries Book 2)

By: Tucker Coe

3.93

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

For the sake of a distant cousin, Mitch Tobin takes on an impossible case On the outskirts of Gree… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

17 Best fiction books like Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

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Flashfire (Parker, #19)

Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

Richard Stark

3.93

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Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

Richard Stark

3.70

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23 Top fiction books like The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) by Richard Stark

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Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)

Donald E. Westlake

4.01

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

Donald E. Westlake

4.03

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The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

James Crumley

3.74

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