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Mitch Tobin #5
Don't Lie to Me - FIRST EDITION.
states 'FIRST EDITION". Random House. 1972. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 along with 'First Edition' in the Random House manner.The fifth and final Mitchell Tobin mystery. Pseudonym of Richard Stark/Donald E. Westlake.
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First published January 1, 1972
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March 2, 2023
Don't Lie to Me (Mitch Tobin, #5) by Tucker Coe aka Donald Westlake. Kindle
Mitch Tobin has been off the NYPD as a cop after his partner was murdered as Mitch was not covering his partners back. Mitch's latest job is as a night time security guard in a museum. A rather boring job that is before there's a knock on the museum's front door. The woman who Mitch was having the affair with while his partner was murdered was standing in front of him. Linda Campbell needs his help. She tells him all about it while he makes his rounds on the upper floors.
The sight of the naked dead man on the floor stops them in their tracks. And so begins the last book in the Mitch Tobin series.
I really enjoyed this book because of the main character. A real man with vulnerabilities and flaws. The author does a good job in detailing each character and how they play a part in Mitch's life and this mystery. I wasn't prepared for this ending, Nevertheless it is the last book with Mitch.
Mitch Tobin has been off the NYPD as a cop after his partner was murdered as Mitch was not covering his partners back. Mitch's latest job is as a night time security guard in a museum. A rather boring job that is before there's a knock on the museum's front door. The woman who Mitch was having the affair with while his partner was murdered was standing in front of him. Linda Campbell needs his help. She tells him all about it while he makes his rounds on the upper floors.
The sight of the naked dead man on the floor stops them in their tracks. And so begins the last book in the Mitch Tobin series.
I really enjoyed this book because of the main character. A real man with vulnerabilities and flaws. The author does a good job in detailing each character and how they play a part in Mitch's life and this mystery. I wasn't prepared for this ending, Nevertheless it is the last book with Mitch.
January 28, 2009
The final Mitch Tobin novel.
Tobin is finally starting to heal from the terrible wound on his psyche that had kept him home for several years. He's taken a job as a night watchman.
Two things interrupt that. Linda, the woman he'd been having the affair with years ago that inadvertently lead to the death of his partner and got him fired from the police department, shows up at work needing his help. The second thing is a naked dead man in the museum while she's there.
Now he's trying to keep her secret and deal with her problem, while dealing with a horde of police investigating the dead body.
I liked this one and thought it a fitting end to the series.
Tobin is finally starting to heal from the terrible wound on his psyche that had kept him home for several years. He's taken a job as a night watchman.
Two things interrupt that. Linda, the woman he'd been having the affair with years ago that inadvertently lead to the death of his partner and got him fired from the police department, shows up at work needing his help. The second thing is a naked dead man in the museum while she's there.
Now he's trying to keep her secret and deal with her problem, while dealing with a horde of police investigating the dead body.
I liked this one and thought it a fitting end to the series.
November 13, 2017
This is another very entertaining work from Westlake. As usual, interesting plot with detailed characters.
March 29, 2023
Probably the least compelling of the series, in part because it never really pays off the emotional bomb it drops early. It feels like there's 50 pages missing. Still, glad I finished up the series. Mitch Tobin is a fascinating character of Westlake's and deserves more attention.
December 28, 2024
Sadly the last of the Mitch Tobin stories written by the late Westlake under the name Tucker Coe. A master writer with many surprises and an incredible suspense scene where our unarmed hero needs to defend himself against four hoods come to get him in the dead of night at his home. I wish he wrote more of this character but I guess he explored everything he wanted. Plenty of excellent Westlake to read.
April 29, 2015
The last of the Mitch Tobin novels was easily one of my favorites. The ending is a perfect Westlake ending: hard-nosed, exhausting and funny-as-hell. I wasn't too thrilled with Wax Apple and A Jade in Aries (the former for its plodding plot, the latter for its cringeworthingly outdated ideas about homosexuality), but this was a return to form for Tucker Coe/D.E.W. Bummed there are no more left to read. We never found out whether he finished his wall!
April 9, 2023
Well, I read this one simply because I wanted to try out my library's e-book checkout system, and Westlake is an author I trust, though I haven't read any of this series. Other GR reviewers have said they were disappointed in this book but I found it fascinating.
What interested me was not the mystery (or mysteries), or the action--various killings, beatings, thefts--what interested me was the way the main character worked at getting into the minds of every other character. Whether cop or thug or wife or academic, he thought about why they made every move, said every word.
Okay, one or two places he behaved badly But all in all a satisfying study.
What interested me was not the mystery (or mysteries), or the action--various killings, beatings, thefts--what interested me was the way the main character worked at getting into the minds of every other character. Whether cop or thug or wife or academic, he thought about why they made every move, said every word.
Okay, one or two places he behaved badly But all in all a satisfying study.
March 18, 2021
My favorite Tobin mystery. Great job.
March 31, 2021
Such dislikable characters, including Tobin. Plot was just okay. Very disappointing. Not sure I’ll continue with this series.
August 31, 2022
Like others a little bit of a let down in the ending. Kind of a plot hole where he's in bed and somehow guys who break in don't find him.
May 14, 2014
Mitch Tobin, an ex-NYPD cop, has taken a job as a nightwatchman in an obscure Manhattan Museum of graphic design. The museum becomes the sight of some highly irregular, not to mention entirely illegal, events. Tobin has to solve the crimes, or risk having his past transgressions brought into the public eye again. All in all, a pretty gritty read.
January 22, 2017
More violent and grittier than most other Westlake series.
Decent writing but nothing special compared with other Westlake novels.
Decent writing but nothing special compared with other Westlake novels.
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