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Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to 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 Bradford W. Forbes, the president of an unnamed university (heavily implied to be Northeastern, the university at which Parker himself taught at the time ...
The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) Last appearance: As written by Parker, Sixkill (2010); character is currently being written by Ace Atkins and Mike Lupica: Created by: Robert B. Parker: Portrayed by: Robert Urich Joe Mantegna Mark Wahlberg: In-universe information; Gender: Male: Occupation: Private detective: Significant other: Susan Silverman ...
The earliest surviving manuscript that extends prior to Woden, the Vespasian version of the Anglian collection, only gives one additional name, that of Woden's father, an otherwise unknown Frealeaf. However, in the case of the genealogy of the kings of Lindsey, it makes Frealeaf son of Friothulf, son of Finn, son of Godwulf, son of Geat.
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.
Robert B. Parker – The Godwulf Manuscript; Mervyn Peake (died 1968) – The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb; Anthony Powell – Temporary Kings; Thomas Pynchon – Gravity's Rainbow; Ernst von Salomon – Der tote Preuße; Irwin Shaw – Evening in Byzantium; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ)
Spenser is a private investigator in Boston.He had previously served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War [1] and was a State trooper, which have given him the physical skills, analytical mind and moral fortitude for his profession.
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.
Double Deuce is a 1992 novel by American writer Robert B. Parker, the 19th book featuring the private investigator Spenser.The story follows Boston-based Spenser as he and his friend Hawk butt heads against a street gang while attempting to unravel the murder of a teenage mother and her young daughter.