Richard Stark

Richard Stark was a pseudonym used by Donald Edwin Westlake (born July 12, 1933 – died December 31, 2008) an American writer. He wrote under his own name Donald E. Westlake, and many other pseudonyms including: John B. Allan, Judson Jack Carmichael, Curt Clark, Tucker Coe, Timothy J. Culver, J. Morgan Cunningham, Samuel Holt, Alan Marshall, and Edwin West. As Richard Stark he wrote the series: Grofield, and Parker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Westlake