Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1962

I wasn't sure where to put this but... If one has recently watched Point Blank and would like to read some Richard Stark does one a) need to start with The Hunter ii) read the series in order?

I have been in a lot of corridors today, trying to walk as loudly as possible.

Would be interesting to compare book and movie, but bookwise I started with the last, Dirty Money, which picked up right where the one before left off, and had no mystifying references to anything. Stark talk here over the years, most recently from noob me and some experts responding: Crime Fiction, S/D

An all-time classick crime movie for sure.

I have a bias towards reading series in order, but I wouldn't worry about it too much with the Parker books ... there are some recurring characters, but they aren't developed in ways that are likely to be confusing if you read the books out of sequence. (I've only read the pre-Comeback books, so maybe the later books have more continuity.)

Cheers both - I've ordered a couple and will see. And aye, what a film.

As with most things, I'm a dilettante (grew up on Hardy Boys and Hitchcock's Investigators; sprawled since then); I can see that thread is going to cost me a fortune!

Agreed you can just start wherever but I see no real reason NOT to start with The Hunter - it's a great introduction to the character and sufficiently different from the film to not feel deja vu.