Pale Kings And Princes
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440200048 (0440200040)
Publish date: June 10th 1988
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Spenser 4 (#14)
Lost track of what number in the Spenser series this book is, but it doesn't matter, it was up to par with so many of the others before it. Parker hasn't lost his touch and I always enjoy reading a reminder about Spenser's ethics. Susan tunes in with "You pretend to be such a wise guy, and you are ...
The first couple of pages of this book irritated me with their conformance to so many hard-boiled detective cliches. Then I read the other 295p in two sessions - and I wish it had been only one, because the break came just before the denouement and it lost a bit of tension because of that. Not the a...
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