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About the Book

Double Feature

The movie star and the movie critic. How far would they go to keep their secrets buried? DOUBLE FEATURE contains two classic Donald E. Westlake novellas, "A Travesty" and Ordo."

What's hidden behind the silver screen?

In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend --- well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves?

On the opposite coast, movie star Dawn Devayne --- the hottest It Girl in Hollywood --- gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried.

These two short novels, one hilarious and one heartbreaking, are two of the best works Westlake ever wrote. And fittingly, both became movies --- one starring Jack Ryan's Marie Josée Croze, and one starring William H. Macy of Fargo and Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives."

Double Feature
by Donald E. Westlake

  • Publication Date: February 4, 2020
  • Genres: Fiction, Hard-boiled Mystery, Mystery
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hard Case Crime
  • ISBN-10: 1785657208
  • ISBN-13: 9781785657207