comedy+heist book suggestion

[south]

hi can anyone please suggest me some good comedy heist books...

like the movies ladykillers, welcome to colinwood..must be comedy..must be heist..

thanks in advance

[Dana King]

Check out any of Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books. They're all funny, they're all capers, and Westlake was brilliant.

[Eric Christopherson]

Yep. Check out The Hot Rock in particular.

[J. E. Seymour]

Dancing Aztecs by Donald Westlake.  Laugh out loud funny.

[Michael J. McCann]

I agree. Donald Westlake was the king of crime comedy. You can't go wrong with him.

[Joshua Corin]

I hate to toot my own horn...I really do...but my first novel, Nuclear Winter Wonderland, was a comedy heist novel that Booklist gave a starred review...

 

*whistles innocently*

[south]

thank you guys for the suggestions...i sarted with the hot rock

[south]

i finished reading 'the hot rock'..i dint feel it interesting or comic(except for the train scene and a couple of scenes)..

i was expecting them to be morons, but they are perfect in their trade except for the major and at last he too proved to be clever.

i felt the story as pretty ordinary and predictable. what are the cops doing..? wren't there investigators at the time?

its just my opinion and thanks again for the suggestions

 

[Stuart Matthew Davis]

Ha!  I love that you mention the lack of cops.  Cops don't exist in Donald Westlake's world, whether it be his Dortmunder books or his Parker novels (Personally, I love the Parker novels, but they're not funny).  If you're looking for funny, Elmore Leonard always makes me laugh out loud with his awesome characters.