The Fugitive Pigeon

By: Donald E. Westlake

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Synopsis: This &“high comedy of errors [and] murder&” with a cat-and-mouse plot is &“real fun on the run&” from the Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Charlie Poole is a bum. His friends know it. His gangster uncle Al knows it. And Charlie himself knows it better than anyone. He&’s stuck with his meager lot, tending bar at his uncle&’s Brooklyn dive, picking up the occasional package . . . and being a bum. But when two mob hit men show up out of the blue and inform him that his breathing days are over, Charlie doesn&’t feel like a bum anymore. He feels like an extremely fast runner. Because not having much of a life is still way better than not having any life at all. Now, the hapless Charlie is on the lam with a pair of heavies on his tail. And over the next few days, he stumbles into a murder he gets blamed for, meets a gorgeous gal he could fall for, discovers what he&’s willing to fight for—and finds out just why the hell anyone would want to kill a bum like him . . . Praise for Donald E. Westlake &“Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.&” —San Francisco Chronicle &“No writer can excel Donald E. Westlake.&” —Los Angeles Times