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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. John Earle (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. [10], 307, [3] pages. Ex-library copy with the usual markings. DJ is in a plastic sleeve affixed to the boards. Slightly cocked. Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies was also produced based on the character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane. Parker also wrote nine novels featuring the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town; six novels with the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator; and four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. The first was Appaloosa, made into a film starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Organized crime in Parker's fictional Boston has provided protein-rich fodder for most of the Spenser novels. Parker's burly and literate PI untangles the knotted power schemes of the four putative heirs-and a brash newcomer-to old Joe Broz's domain. A second-echelon hoodlum, Julius Ventura, hires Spenser and his partner/sidekick Hawk to find his daughter's missing husband, a middle-management criminal named Anthony Meeker, who, it turns out, had money-handling responsibilities. Speedily determining that Meeker liked to gamble, Spenser and his lover, psychiatrist Susan Silverman, and Hawk depart for Las Vegas. They find their quarry, discover the complicating identity of his female companion and are joined by assorted other players, including one of Ventura's nastier fellow crimesters and Meeker's wife. A murder follows, sending Spenser back to Boston to determine who has betrayed whom and to try to smooth the way out for one of the women involved in the mess. This is vintage Parker, replete with the expected black/white repartee between Spenser and Hawk and the archly crude dialogue he carries on with Susan. The action rings true, especially the machinations among the crime bosses, as Spenser proves himself once more a modern-day knight in shining armor.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Earle (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 291, [3] pages. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character was also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and best-selling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town, and six novels based on the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Spenser tries to solve a thirty-year-old murder as a favor to an old friend, in this brilliant new mystery from the Grand Master. In 1974, a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade held up the old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveler's checks, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite security camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators have remained at large for nearly three decades. Enter Paul Giacomin, the closest thing to a son Spenser has. Twice before, Spenser has come to the young man's assistance; and now Paul is in his thirties, his troubled past behind him. When Paul's friend Daryl Gordon--daughter of the long-gone Emily--decides she needs closure about the matter of her mother's death, it's Spenser she turns to. The lack of clues, and the fact that an FBI intelligence report is missing, force Spenser to reach out in every direction and test his resourcefulness and courage. Taut, tense, and expertly crafted, this is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best. Derived from a Kirkus review: What a guy that Spenser is. For a retainer of half a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts?two of them consumed on the spot by his old friend, playwright Paul Giacomin, and his friend, actress Daryl Silver?he agrees to look again into the death of Daryl's mother, Emily Gordon, who was shot down when a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade robbed the Audubon Circle branch of the Old Shawmut Bank. The main problems facing Spenser are that (1) the fatal bank robbery took place way back in 1974, in a hazy world few people remember and even fewer want to; (2) the FBI report on the robbery and the Dread Scott Brigade has vanished with nary a trace of accidental misfiling; and (3) a Boston strongman named Sonny Karnofsky sends goons with guns to Spenser's place to make it clear that he wants Spenser to let sleeping dogs lie, though not why that's what he'd prefer. Of course, Spenser's made plenty of enemies in his 30-year career, but it's rare that a single case has estranged the mob, the Feebees, and his own client, who's so stung by the less-than-edifying revelations he digs up about her parents that she demands he shut down the investigation and stalks out of his office. Now if only Sonny Karnofsky and Co. believed he was really quitting. But Spenser is not without the usual resources: his backup/buddy Hawk, his kill-who-you-need-to bedtime shrink Susan, and his bulldog certainty that you can't let go just because everybody around you tells you to. Mystery buffed to a high gloss. Parker has made male posturing into an art form.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Earle (author photograph) (illustrator). First Edition [stated]. 270, [2] pages. Erasure residue on fep. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character was also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and best-selling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town, and six novels based on the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Hired by the Port City Theater Company's board of trustees to investigate the director's claim that he is being followed, Spenser feels like a fish out of water--until an actor is gunned down during a performance of a politically controversial play. Then Boston's premier private cop and his cohort, Hawk, go into action, plunging straight into a maze of motives that constitutes a master class in the difficulty of judging reality from appearances. Spencer soon discovers that solving the actor's murder is only a piece of the puzzle. From covert carnal connections within the community to municipal corruption with international tentacles; from petty troublemakers to major malefactors for whom murder is merely a day at the office--this case has everything it takes to stump the sharpest of Sherlocks. And nobody loves a challenge more than Spenser. This was a Book of the Month Club Main selection. Derived from a Kirkus review: An irresistible new crime novel that will captivate. In this, Parker's 26th novel, the private investigator returns to delight readers with his sexy and literate brand of hardball-goofball that rightfully has gained him his faithful following. Spenser is back in Port City, Mass., a drizzly waterfront town, at the request of his girlfriend, Susan, to investigate a stalking. Since the victim, the indigent artistic director of the Port City Theater Company, cannot afford to pay Spenser, he works for double his "usual fee" ? four nights of passion with Susan, a price that she is happy to pay. Soon, Spenser's attention is diverted by the murder of one of the company's actors. He enlists the aid of Hawk, that frightening teddy bear of a man. In the course of his investigation Spenser clashes with a Chinese Mafia family and narrowly misses becoming a murder victim himself. But, as Spenser warns his prospective murderers, he is not so easy to kill. He manages to remain standing through two more killings, a kidnapping, and another stalking, all of which he handles with the usual aplomb. The various crimes are related in a potentially confusing web, but Spenser skillfully guides the reader through the complex plot. The reader understands everything just moments after Spenser does, which for all his modesty happens pretty quickly. Spenser approaches his crime-busting activities with a charming blend of earnestness and self-parody. He has no trouble coming home from a hard day foiling crime to whip up a delectable meal for his successful shrink girlfriend. Now, that's class.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Earle (Author Photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 224 pages. Includes Prologue and 44 chapters. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character was also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and best-selling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town, and six novels based on the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Robert B. Parker's Spenser thrillers have been hailed by The Washington Post as "a seminal and exceptional series in the history of American hard-boiled detective fiction." He is the author of twenty-three books. Double Deuce finds Spenser forced by loyalty into an alien world, where violence is a way of life and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. Spenser returns in an unflinching, rapid-fire tale of urban life-and death-on Boston's mean streets. Spenser is forced by loyalty into an alien world, where violence is a way of life and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. When Spenser's cohort, Hawk, is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project known as Double Deuce, he enlists his friend's aid. A teenaged girl and her infant daughter have been gunned down. Although the act at first appears to have been an accidental drive-by shooting, it is soon revealed as premeditated murder. Before they can solve the crime and see the perpetrator brought to justice, Spenser and Hawk must take on an adolescent band of hardened urban warriors, led by a proud and lethal force of nature called Major Johnson. As bullets fly, Spenser learns more than he ever dreamed about a generation imprisoned in a hell of poverty & hopelessness. Derived form a Publishers Weekly article: In Parker's 23rd Spenser novel, our hero finds himself, at the behest of his pal Hawk, defending the residents of a gang-terrorized Boston housing project. The drive-by shooting of a teenage mother and her child brings the duo into a confrontation with gang leader Major Johnson and his posse. At the same time, Spenser's longtime relationship with psychologist Susan is escalating, and the two agree to live together. The contrast between Spenser's cozy domestic situation (and a new relationship for the enigmatic Hawk, who reveals some of his background) and the poverty and violence of the urban projects reinforces the authenticity of this series, and its appeal. The snappy dialogue, timely, fast-paced action and quick characterizations make it classic Spenser. This was a Mystery Guild main selection.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Earle (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 293, [1] pages. Slightly cocked. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character was also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and best-selling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town, and six novels based on the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. When a Boston police detective's adored young bride, Lisa St. Claire, disappears without a trace, he enlists Spenser's help in tracking her down. This leads Spenser to probe the mysteries of her checkered past, in a masterful work of detection that leads him on a trail of obsession and violence. Sleuthing from a New England college campus to the slick sports clubs of L.A., Spenser discovers all about Lisa--including her past history of prostitution, substance abuse, and self-destructive love affairs--and suspects she is being held prisoner by her sociopathic Latino ex-lover in his crumbling tenement fortress deep within the barrio of a burned-out Massachusetts mill town. Accompanied by a Chicano shooter with an ironclad attitude and an unflinching sense of honor, Spenser sets in motion a complex plan to rescue Lisa. As he wheels and deals with boozy, broken cops and messianic local warlords, he is forced to face some brutal truths. Derived from a Kirkus review: Spenser's 22nd adventure pits him against the kidnapper of a bride who has as much to hide as the deranged romantic who's kidnapped her. Snatched from her new husband, Boston cop Frank Belson, disc jockey Lisa St. Claire occupies the time in between changing into the movie-star outfits her kidnapper favors by repeating the mantra "Frank will find me." But Frank, ambushed and left for dead, is in no condition to find anybody. So it's up to Spenser to stand in for his old acquaintance. It isn't long before Spenser, following a trail of deceit that leads back to Lisa's checkered past in LA, figures out what we already know: Lisa's been grabbed by her former classmate and lover, Luis Deleon, who's presumably holding her in a stronghold in San Juan Hill, his private Hispanic garrison in his hometown of Proctor. The Proctor police chief, though, won't lift a finger that might trigger an outbreak of gang warfare between Luis and his arch rival, Freddie Santiago; and since Hawk is off in Burma doing something clandestine, Spenser has to radio for reinforcements during a trip he and Susan make to LA: somebody who'll help him persuade Santiago to move against Luis in a bid to take over San Juan Hill. A lesser storyteller would linger over the thrust and parry of this rescue operation, but Parker sets it all up with his left hand ?while he's uncovering the neurotically interlocking desires that make Luis and Lisa the perfect, foreordained victims of doomed romance. Spenser hefts heavy weights and heavy literary allusions with all the aplomb of a junkyard dog marking its turf, proving once again that the triumph of this venerable series is the understated authority of the hero's voice.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 6.50x4.69x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. John Earle (author's photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 223, [1] pages. Includes 46 chapters. Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character was also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and best-selling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the fictional character Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town, and six novels based on the fictional character Sunny Randall, a female private investigator. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Spenser tracks a mystery woman who refuses to rest in peace, in Robert B. Parker's most beguiling thriller yet. Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes the brutal street slaying of his wife, Olivia, to be something other than random violence, Spenser immediately senses Tripp's picture-perfect version of his family's life is false. For starters, the victim's reputation is fair too saintly, while her house is as lived-in as a stage set, and her troubled children don't appear the product of a happy home. Spenser plunges into a world of grand illusion, peopled by cardboard cutouts, including: a distinguished public servant with plenty to hide; a wealthy executive whose checks bounce; a sleepy southern town seething with scandal; and the ambiguous Olivia herself. Consummately mysterious and smokily sensual, Paper Doll is Parker and Spenser at their compelling best. Derived from a Kirkus review: Boston p.i. Spenser?perennial student of crime and cooking- is here, in a new, very satisfying case, the backdrop is AIDS, dysfunctional families, and child abuse. Who literally hammered society belle Olivia Nelson into an early grave? That's the question posed to Spenser by the victim's husband, Boston brahmin Loudon Tripp, who's hired the p.i. to back up the cops' hunt for the killer. But a new question soon arises: Who was Olivia Nelson, anyway? Looking for clues, Spenser travels to sleepy Alton, Georgia, where he visits the victim's senile father and learns through the man's lifelong black valet that Loudon's dead wife looked like?but wasn't?the real Olivia, who's living in Africa. Trouble brews when Alton cops and two thugs connected to a boozing, wrenching US senator from Massachusetts strong-arm the p.i.?who's saved from a bad beating when series' regular Martin Quirk, of Boston Homicide, rides to the rescue. Back north, Spenser, working with a gay cop whose lover is dying of AIDS, confronts the senator, who admits to interfering with the case in order to cover up his affair with Olivia." Spenser tattles to Loudon and his children, who turn out to be walking bundles of denial who'll accept neither Olivia's infidelity nor Loudon's incipient bankruptcy. A further turn brings the p.i. back to Georgia for revelations about the real identity of the dead woman?and her killer. With more mystery than most Spenser tales, and with the emphasis on sins of the soul, this is very well done.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Earle, Mrs. H. M. ; Parker, Gerard (illustrator). Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 153pp. Colour frontis. With illustrations in colour from drawings by Mrs. H. M. Earle and Gerard Parker. Head of spine a little frayed. Colour illustration of flower pasted onto front pastedown. Some marginal marking and underlining to text, with annotations to blank pages at rear. Private ownership. (ar10).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.(iv)+84. 21.5cm. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. (US Marine recuperating in Australia in 1943; married an Aussie. Stayed 20 years. Short stories . true, of course?).

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original turquoise blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 153 pp with colour drawings and monochrome photographic plates. Shallow rubs to spine ends and corners, a few brown surface marks to the foot of the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. GARDEN & HORTICULTURE.

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