That's one thing I love about Spenser: he cares about his moral code. He discovers that good people are being blackmailed, and that in order to protect them he may be forced to violate his moral code. Disguised as a writer of non-fiction books, Spenser quizzes players and broadcasters, but soon his investigation leads him to bookies, hoods, pimps and madams.
The Red Sox hire Spenser to snoop undercover to find out whether their star pitcher Marty Rabb is shaving points and throwing games.
In addition to having a manly hero, the book is all about sports: baseball to be precise, America's “national pastime” (at least that's how we thought of it in 1975). Its hero has well-defined abs, boxed enough professionally to get his nose broken, packs a pistol and can use a long gun when he has to, and has a serious problem with authority. Now, how many hard-boiled detective novels can claim that?ĭon't get me wrong. What makes this a first class yarn is the presence of four individualized, essentially admirable women. With this third entry in the Spenser series, Parker creates his first thoroughly superior mystery. Promised Land and the other Spenser novels spawned the movie Spenser: For Hire and a string of made-for-TV movies. Parker's acclaim and his thorough background in classic detective literature helped earn him the somewhat unusual commission of completing a Philip Marlowe novel that the great Raymond Chandler had left unfinished. Best known for his portrayal of the tough but erudite investigator Spenser, Parker wrote over twenty-five novels over the course of his career, which began in 1973. Parker was one of contemporary fiction's most popular and respected detective writers. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling 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 was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Robert B.
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