The
Italian restaurant Tre Mafiosi appears.
This eatery can also be seen in Westlake’s Dortmunder novel What’s
So Funny?, as well as another non-series
novel by Westlake, Money for Nothing.
Since the Dortmunder books take place in the CU, so do A
Likely Story and Money
for Nothing.
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A Likely Story is one few Westlake novels that isn't a crime novel. I think there is a brief part about a mugging and that's it. Really, it was a satire on the publishing industry and a story about family relations. It also includes the immortal line:
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