God save the mark: a novel of crime and confusion
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* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.-Dictionary of American Slang, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1960 That's the long definition of a mark. But there's a shorter one. It goes: * mark n. Fred Fitch What, you ask, is a Fred Fitch? Well, for one thing, Fred Fitch is the man with the most extensive collection of fake receipts, phony bills of sale, and counterfeit sweepstakes tickets in the Western Hemisphere, and possibly in the entire world. For another thing, Fred Fitch may be the only New York City resident in the twentieth century to buy a money machine. When Barnum said, "There's one born every minute, and two to take him," he didn't know about Fred Fitch; when Fred Fitch was born, there were two million to take him.Every itinerant grifter, hypester, bunk artist, short-conner, amuser, shearer, short-changer, green-goods worker, pennyweighter, ring dropper, and yentzer to hit New York City considers his trip incomplete until he's also hit Fred Fitch. He's sort of the con-man's version of Go: Pass Fred Fitch, collect two hundred dollars, and move on.What happens to Fred Fitch when his long-lost Uncle Matt dies and leaves Fred three hundred thousand dollars shouldn't happen to the ball in a pinball machine. Fred Fitch with three hundred thousand dollars is like a mouse with a sack of catnip: He's likely to attract the wrong kind of attention.Add to this the fact that Uncle Matt was murdered, by person or persons unknown, and that someone now seems determined to murder Fred as well, mix in two daffily charming beauties of totally different types, and you have a perfect setup for the busiest fictional hero since the well-known one-armed paperhanger. As Fred Fitch careers across the New York City landscape-and sometimes skyline-in his meetings with cops, con men, beautiful girls, and (maybe) murderers, he takes on some of the loonier aspects of a Dante without a Virgil. Take one part comedy and one part suspense and shake well-mostly with laughter.
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display_description | Fred Fitch is a man who is both pure of heart and substance but utterly credulous. If there is a scam operating anywhere--his rooming house where the General needs a loan to print his revelation of the secret history of the government, the street where the Little Sisters of the Poor are raising funds for the homeless, or just about anywhere in between--Fred finds it or it finds Fred to the same uncertain end. Fred even has his own contact, Reilly, on the Bunco Squad at Headquarters, who adds weekly to the enormous file. But Fred's complicated life becomes overly complicated when a lawyer turns up on the scene to tell him that his late Uncle Matt has willed him $300,000. Fred has never before heard of Uncle Matt. Along with the inheritance comes the devoted Gertie Divine, Uncle Matt's old friend who is all too willing to become Fred's new friend, and a host of other mysterious characters who are willing to chum up with Fred in their bid for the $300,000, all of whom feel their claim to be more valid than Fred's. This otherwise comic caper turns desperate when the pursuers begin to make serious attempts on Fred's life and Gertie becomes just a little too devoted. Westlake's brilliant and original picaresque story was awarded the MWA Edgar as best novel of 1967. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Detective and mystery stories, Electronic books, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, Large type books, Murder victims' families -- Fiction, Mystery fiction, New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | God save the mark : a novel of crime and confusion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | God save the mark : a novel of crime and confusion / Donald E. Westlake, God save the mark : a novel of crime and confusion [electronic resource] / Donald E. Westlake, God save the mark [electronic resource] / Donald E. Westlake, God save the mark [large print] : a novel of crime and confusion / Donald E. Westlake | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | God save the mark : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel of crime and confusion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Electronic books, Inheritance and succession, Murder victims' families, Swindlers and swindling |