Not Quite Parker

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Pastiches, homages, references, and rip-offs.

The Dark Half, by Stephen King (1991)

"Anyway, for reasons you'd have to ask Westlake about, he eventually stopped writing novels about Parker, but I never forgot something Westlake said after the pen name was blown.  He said he wrote books on sunny days and Stark took over on the rainy ones..."

    --Thad Beaumont

The Nolan series, by Max Allan Collins

"One Parker pastiche was an homage; a series really did seem a rip-off..."

    --Max Allan Collins

The Joe Kurtz series, by Dan Simmons

"My mother was a whore. I didn't see much of her even before the orphanage. Once when she was drunk, she told me that she thought my old man was a thief, some guy with just one name and that not even his own..."

   --Joe Kurtz

The Wyatt series, by Garry Disher

I haven't read any of these yet, but several readers have pointed me to this Australian series of Parker pastiches.
 

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