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Featuring rapid-fire dialogue and spicy characters, Robert B. Parker's books are top-shelf reading for fans of detective crime novels. His Spenser series is several titles strong and an established classic; lately Parker has raised the stakes with two additional series (one featuring private eye Sunny Randle, the other featuring police chief Jesse Stone) that may eventually rival his beloved Boston P.I.
He lives in Boston.
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The Professional
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $30.00
A knock on Spenser's office door can mean only one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $30.00
A knock on Spenser's office door can mean only one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with... Read more >
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The Godwulf Manuscript
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 5, 1992
Price: $7.99
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Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 5, 1992
Price: $7.99
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Early Autumn
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 5, 1992
Price: $7.99
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With a contract out on his... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 5, 1992
Price: $7.99
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With a contract out on his... Read more >
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Looking for Rachel Wallace
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1987
Price: $7.99
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1987
Price: $7.99
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance... Read more >
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Also available as an
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Pale Kings and Princes
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 1988
Price: $7.99
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 1988
Price: $7.99
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek Read more >
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All Our Yesterdays
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $7.99
They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $7.99
They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous... Read more >
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School Days
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.99
Lily Ellsworth--erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish--is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.99
Lily Ellsworth--erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish--is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though... Read more >
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Night and Day
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $29.95
Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of course, would like nothing... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $29.95
Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of course, would like nothing... Read more >
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Bad Business
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.99
When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.99
When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint... Read more >
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Brimstone
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $29.95
When we last saw Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It’s now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart during their days in Appaloosa... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $29.95
When we last saw Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It’s now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart during their days in Appaloosa... Read more >
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Rough Weather
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $29.95
“Robert B. Parker is that rarity–a prolific author whose books are consistently original, suspenseful and fascinating. His crackling dialogue is always fresh and smart-alecky. You’re happily hooked before you know it.”-Forbes
Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected–and she needs Spenser’s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $29.95
“Robert B. Parker is that rarity–a prolific author whose books are consistently original, suspenseful and fascinating. His crackling dialogue is always fresh and smart-alecky. You’re happily hooked before you know it.”-Forbes
Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected–and she needs Spenser’s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download.
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The Spenser Collection: Volume II
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 4, 2006
Price: $29.95
Back Story
When Spenser tries to solve a thirty-year-old murder as a favor to an old friend, the lack of clues and the fact that an FBI intelligence report is missing force Spenser to reach out in every direction–to his old friend’s estranged hippie father; to Vinnie Morris and the mob; to... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 4, 2006
Price: $29.95
Back Story
When Spenser tries to solve a thirty-year-old murder as a favor to an old friend, the lack of clues and the fact that an FBI intelligence report is missing force Spenser to reach out in every direction–to his old friend’s estranged hippie father; to Vinnie Morris and the mob; to... Read more >
