The Mourner

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Review #1

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If you’re familiar with Dashiell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon pulp classic, or the Film Noir adaptation, then The Mourner is akin to that elusive black bird statue in this novel. However, aside from the quest for a coveted statue, that is where the similarities end in Richard Stark’s 4th Parker installment in the series and this might be my favorite Parker book yet. This is not a detective novel and Parker (Charles Willis) is no Sam Spade, however he is, in the traditional pulp style, victim to double-crosses and even taking a bullet in “The Mourner.”

The August Menlo character in this novel is a deceptive and artful enemy and Parker will have to track him down to recover the statue. Menlo has a deep history as a spy during the Second World War and has mastered the art of deception making him a formidable opponent of Parker.

The pacing in the book is tight and offers the reader a non-linear 4 Part, or Act, structure which helps build the suspense. “The Killing” based on the crime novel “Clean Break” (adapted by Stanley Kubrick as the basis for his 1956 film, The Killing) comes to mind. This book was first published in 1963.
As with all Parker novels it concludes with him setting up his next caper and evading police or the Mob.

Review #2

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This is a standard review for the University of Chicago published Parker series by Richard Stark. Overall the quality of the stories is very high. They are tightly plotted with dialogue fitted to the voices of the different characters. The descriptions of places and objects are brief but clear and connected to the characters’ perceptions.

Now the negatives: These stories average about $9.99, and I expect that some editing must have been done to warrant so high a price for what are rather short novels. There are egregious editing errors in every book in the series, some with only a few, most noticeably the first four books in the series. The rest have over a dozen spelling and grammar errors that were no doubt due to the OCR scanning process on the original books/manuscripts. The software just can’t identify certain words and doesn’t always fix hyphenated words back to whole words. Having the choice all over again, I would look for the paper backs and read those. The books just aren’t worth the $9.99 average price.

Review #3

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The Parker series is legendary, and justifiably so. This is so hard boiled that the eggs have cracked. If you are a fan of noir and you haven’t tried this series you’re missing a master at work. This one of the best in the series. Westlake was at his best in this series, lean, stripped to the bone prose and a character so bleak that you can’t take your eyes off him.a must-read entry in a must-read series.

I’m working my way thru the Parker series by Starkey and each one is masterful so far. Can’t add to that. Parker is the deal and doesn’t disappoint. He is a bad guy and won’t show up with sudden redeeming qualities that make you think otherwise. That said, you want to see him succeed in all his “jobs”….because he is a master at what he does. The best.

Review #4

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This series started at a wrong time, it went entirely against the spirit of the 60s, says John Banville in his introduction to vol 4 of the Parker series. You can say that again. Parker cares nothing about politics or wars or love, but he will rob you and kill you if you are in the way.

He cares nothing about art or history, but here he gets involved in art theft. Business is business. Parker works for money. If there is a history behind an art object, what does he care. The statuette in question, the mourning monk, hails from Dijon. Various historical events moved it to Canada, then Atlanta, then Boston, now Washington D.C. in the embassy of a fictional iron curtain country — another intricacy that Parkers cares nothing about. Parker’s patience is heavily tested by this tale. He likes his briefs to be brief.

The fact that the University of Chicago Press reprints the Parker series, and that they get highbrow Banville to write an introduction, proves at least, if nothing else, that the author Westlake/Stark has found influential supporters. It doesn’t prove the high value of the writing. For that you need to see for yourself.
I have myself nearly quit the habit of reading crime series, but there are always exceptions.

Review #5

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The book is classic crime noir. Sparsely written with little remorse. Every ones path and fate is laid out from the start. Westlakes style is like Parker, brutal punchy and to the point. You know what you are getting and it delivers on every page

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