Looking For Rachel Wallace
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis...
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Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." --The Boston Globe
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440153160 (0440153166)
Publish date: August 1st 1987
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Modern,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled
Series: Spenser 4 (#6)
A publisher hires wise-cracking, ex-fighter Spenser to protect one Rachel Wallace, a writer championing LGBT rights who is rubbing powerful types up the wrong way by exposing discrimination wherever she finds it. No problem, says Spencer, until he actually meets Wallace. Unromantic sparks fly, Spens...
LOOKING FOR RACHEL WALLACE by Robert B. Parker, found Spenser being asked by a publisher to play bodyguard duties to a feminist-lesbian-activist-writer who had started receiving threatening calls the moment her new book had hit the stands. Although as one would discover that those calls were warrant...
When a feminist lesbian author gets death threats, Spenser is hired to protect her. After he is dismissed, Rachel Wallace is kidnapped. Can Spenser bring her back alive?It's been a couple years since I've read a Spenser book. I spent a lot of time looking for Looking for Rachel Wallace at used bo...
If you're reading the series, go for it. But the storyline was shallow, characters thin, and just wasn't all that good. I wasn't, at the time, familiar with Spenser, so he was just another character of Parker's. A few months ago I decided that I would begin reading the Spenser series, and what a ...
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