Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake

464 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction crime mystery funny mysterious medium-paced
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Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from blowing up a dam to unearth $750,000. Dortmunder must devise a safer scheme to get the loot... before the old coot's trigger finger gets too itchy.

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