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The Boston Globe wrote that while some people might have "viewed the move as unseemly, those people didn't know Robert B. Parker, a man who, when asked how his books would be viewed in 50 years, replied: 'Don't know, don't care.' He was proud of his work, but he mainly saw writing as a means of providing a comfortable life for his family."
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The novel's hero is Spenser, a private investigator in Boston.Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War [1] and as a former State trooper, is hired by Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers upper-class scandals and a corpse who might not be dead after all.
Mortal Stakes is the third Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, first published in 1975. The story centers on the Boston private eye being hired by the Red Sox to find out if their lead pitcher, Marty Rabb, is on the take. The investigation quickly takes him into a deeper, and more dangerous, blackmail plot involving pimps, a high class madam ...
Appaloosa (2005) is a novel set in the American Old West written by Robert B. Parker. [1] A film of the same name based on the novel was released in 2008. [2] Parker published a sequel, Resolution, in June 2008, and a third novel featured the characters of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, Brimstone, in May 2009. [3]
Robert Sr. then confides in his son that most of the time he is Professor Robert Johnson, but that sometimes he is Chico Zarilla, and Chico is a killer. He confesses to his son that Chico is the Spare Change killer.
The film has a subplot about Jesse having an old dog that he puts down. Jesse does not have a dog in any of the novels. Also, in the novel, the police department already employs a medical examiner. In the film Jesse recruits the local pediatrician for this position, and has him put down his dog because he doesn't like the local vet.
Potshot is the 28th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The story follows the fictional Boston -based PI Spenser as he tries to identify the killer of a widow's husband. As is often the case, Spenser's probing uncovers much more than just a simple—or single— murder .