dispose of some marked money from a job. Nelson McWhitney: A bar owner who is involved in the heist in the second-to-last book Nobody Runs Forever (2004), the aftermath of which pours into the subsequent two books. Sandra Loscalzo: A somewhat mercenary lesbian private investigator who lives with her girlfriend and her daughter. She is introduced in Nobody Runs Forever (2004) pursuing the bounty on a man who has been murdered by Parker, and ends up abetting his operation in exchange for the location of the body, despite McWhitney's murder of a fellow investigator. She reappears in Dirty Money (2008), helping Parker and McWhitney smuggle their cached robbery money out of town in exchange for a cut. Dr. Myron Madchen: an accomplice to the job in Nobody Runs Forever (2004), hoping to use the money to get out of an unhappy marriage. He reappears in the final book reluctantly providing shelter to Dalesia while he's on the run. Bett Harrow: a femme fatale and one-night stand of Parker's in the third book, The Outfit. After being entrusted with a murder weapon he'd used she ends up using it to blackmail him into stealing a statute for her art-collector father in the next story, The Mourner. Paul Dunstan: and O'Hara: Corrupt policemen who join the gangsters chasing parker in Slayground (1969). By the time of Butcher's Moon (1974) Dunstan has taken up an honest job in another city while O'Hara remains on the force and is becoming seen as a liability. Donald Snyder: A night watchman in Tyler who has the misfortune to be accosted and tied up twice as a result of Parker's jobs, in Slayground (1969) and Butcher's Moon (1974). Mike Abadandi: A soldier for Lozini's crime syndicate who is among those chasing Parker in Slayground (1969) and also makes an attempt on his life in Butcher's Moon (1974). Pete Rudd: A former carpenter and member of Parker's crew in The Seventh (1966), where he is viciously beaten by a fellow criminal and then arrested by the police. Rudd has been released from prison by the time of Backflash (1998) where he plays an off-screen role in facilitating an introduction between Parker and another criminal. Novel structure Westlake used the same structure for many of the Parker novels, a method that Library Review described as "clever." Each book is divided into four sections of roughly equal length, each in