Pale Kings And Princes (Spenser, #14)
In this crime story, the Boston private eye Spenser is hired to determine whether a reporter was killed by dope dealers or by an irate husband. The other Spenser novels include "The Godwulf Manuscript", "The Judas Goat" and "Promised Land", which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for 1976.
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In this crime story, the Boston private eye Spenser is hired to determine whether a reporter was killed by dope dealers or by an irate husband. The other Spenser novels include "The Godwulf Manuscript", "The Judas Goat" and "Promised Land", which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for 1976.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385295383 (0385295383)
Publish date: May 1st 1987
Publisher: The Delacorte Press
Pages no: 256
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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