the happy mania

Donald E. Westlake, a prolific mystery writer who won three Edgar Awards and an Academy Award nomination for screenplay adaptation in a career spanning five decades, has died. He was 75.
Westlake collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack on his way to dinner New Year's Eve while on vacation in Mexico, his wife, Abigail, told the New York Times. (via LA Times)

I'm in the middle of reading 'God Save The Mark', and couldn't wait for the Parker adaptations by Darwyn Cooke to come out. The world has lost a great writer ;__________;