Alan Grofield - Novels

Novels

  • The Score (1964, aka Killtown), a novel in Westlake's Parker series
  • The Handle (1966, aka Run Lethal), a novel in Westlake's Parker series
  • The Damsel (1967)
  • The Dame (1969)
  • The Blackbird (1969) — First chapter shared with Slayground (below)
  • Lemons Never Lie (1971)
  • Slayground (1971), a novel in Westlake's Parker series. Grofield appears only briefly.
  • Butcher's Moon (1974), a novel in Westlake's Parker series

Grofield is mentioned in passing in the Parker novel The Sour Lemon Score, but does not appear.

also:

  • In The Hot Rock (1970), the first of the Dortmunder series (written by Westlake under his real name) the character of Alan Greenwood is a charming ladies' man, sometime actor and professional thief ... and Greenwood plans to change his name to Alan Grofield after Dortmunder and company break him out of jail (p. 233). This, however, is simply an in-joke for Westlake/Stark fans; this isn't really the same Grofield that appears in the Parker novels. A later appearance by Greenwood in the 1977 Dortmunder novel Nobody's Perfect shows that Greenwood did NOT change his name, and became a very successful television actor. Grofield himself despised television, and deliberately avoided any and all offers to work in the medium.
Since The Hot Rock was originally going to be a Parker novel, Westlake probably intended the earlier version of Grofield to be in it, and then adapted him into a similar yet very different character once he realized a comic Parker novel wouldn't work.

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