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2) Ceremony
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 9
Publisher
Delacorte Press /S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
3) Valediction
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 11
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his number-one priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat from the fanatics or their mobster friends con make the tough detective cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and...
4) Early autumn
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
When private investigator Spenser is hired by a woman to rescue her fifteen-year-old son from her ex-husband, Spenser ends up protecting the boy and investigating both parents.
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the local university hired Spenser to recover a stolen manuscript, his only clue was a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 14
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A reporter who was prying into the cocaine trade in the central Massachusetts town of Wheaton has been murdered, and Spencer is called in to investigate.
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at "Miami North" -- little Wheaton, Massachusetts = the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line. Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth...or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband? Spenser will stop at...
10) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 16
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Spenser scores again! In Robert B. Parker's newest, most electrifying bestseller, America's favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye smells corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. And if Spenser doesn't watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life.
11) Pastime
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Paul Giacomin's corrupt father and loose mother used the boys as a pawn in their violent race: only Spenser could call them off and straighten out the misled teen -- almost getting killed in the process. Paul is now twenty-four and reconciled to his mother's wanton ways. But when Patty Giacomin vanishes, Paul begs Spenser to help him rescue her from the clutches of her boyfriend, a shady character he's sure coerced his mother into running....
12) Double deuce
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
When two people are shot outside of a housing project, Spenser and Hawk must battle street gangs and lethal drug dealers in order to track the killer.
13) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 20
Language
English
Description
"She was a model wife and mother, bludgeoned with a hammer on the streets of Beacon Hill. Spenser's searching for a motive and a murderer -- and finding more secrets than meet the eye ..."--Cover, p. [4].
14) Walking shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
15) Small vices
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Boston, a girl student is murdered and police arrest a black man who has a history of sexual assault. The prosecution has no problem obtaining a conviction, even though the man is not guilty. PI Spenser is hired to find the man who is.
16) Potshot
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 28
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Spenser heads to Potshot, Arizona when he is hired to investigate the murder of a recent L.A. transplant. The once rough and tumble small town has been transformed by the wealthy Los Angeles residents looking for a quiet place to relax. The peace is threatened when a gang starts harassing the town, and it soon escalates into murder.
18) Back story
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 30
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after an unsolved bank robbery leaves a woman dead, Paul Giacomin, whom Spenser regards like a son, and Daryl Gordon, the son of the robbery victim, turn to Spenser to seek out clues about the crime.
19) Bad business
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Marlene Rowley hires Spenser to follow her cheating husband, Spenser finds not only a two-timing spouse, but another detective hired to shadow the wayward Marlene. Not the most trusting couple in town--but, as in Spenser's about to learn, certainly one of the most dangerous.
20) Cold service
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul"
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