Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, named a "critic's chart" of "six American noir masters" for the London Times.One prolific master who made the cut:
Donald Westlake aka Richard StarkRead more about Forshaw's list.
Westlake is nonpareil, but aficionados have a sneaking regard for the spare, existential Parker novels that he wrote as Stark.
--Marshal Zeringue