R v Dudley and Stephens of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", published in 1838, features a character named Richard Parker, who, after a shipwreck, becomes a victim of cannibalism by the ship's remaining survivors. Writer Yann Martel in his 2001 novel "Life of Pi" picked up on these occurrences, and named the book's shipwrecked Bengal tiger Richard Parker. The case was also the basis for a famous Monty Python sketch, titled "Lifeboat (Cannibalism)/Still no Sign of Land". In that sketch, five sailors are on a lifeboat after a shipwreck,
Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter The Hunter" as a "Book of the Month." In December 2009, iFanboy named "Parker: The Hunter" the 2009 "Book of the Year." Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter is a 2009 graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke, an adaptation of the first Parker novel "The Hunter" written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. In July 2009, IDW Publishing published Cooke's "Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter", an adaptation of the Donald Westlake novel, "The Hunter", the first of four Parker novels Cooke adapted for IDW. The second, "The Outfit", was released in October 2010, "The