Spenser novels
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Spenser novels volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
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For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.
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Spenser novels volume 2
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Dell
Pub. Date
1987
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205 p. ; 18 cm.
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Spenser investigates the kidnapping of fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett. His only lead, a vicious bodybuilder, isn't talking except with his knuckles, but with a boy's life on the line, Spenser can speak that brutal language too.
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Mortal stakes , Spenser novels volume 3
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Promised land , Spenser novels volume 4
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Spenser novels volume 5
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Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1987, c1978
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203 p. ; 18 cm.
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Spenser is searching for those responsible for the London restaurant bombing that blew up his client's family. He hopes that one of the terrorists will lead him to the others, but he doesn't know she's beautiful and dangerous.
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Looking for Rachel Wallace , Spenser novels volume 6
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Early autumn , Spenser novels volume 7
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A savage place , Spenser novels volume 8
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Ceremony , Spenser novels volume 9
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The widening gyre , Spenser novels volume 10
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Valediction , Spenser novels volume 11
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A Catskill eagle , Spenser novels volume 12
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Taming a sea-horse , Spenser novels volume 13
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Pale kings and princes , Spenser novels volume 14
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Crimson joy , Spenser novels volume 15
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Playmates , Spenser novels volume 16
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Stardust , Spenser novels volume 17
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Pastime , Spenser novels volume 18
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19) Double deuce
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Spenser novels volume 19
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Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Double Deuce is a Boston housing project. Good people live in poverty there. So do the Hobarts, a gang that relieves boredom by shooting pedestrians. To protect the residents of the Double Deuce, urban gunslinger Hawk enlists the aid of private investigator Spenser. Together, they try to track down Major Johnson, the gang leader responsible for a particularly tragic drive-by shooting.
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Paper doll , Spenser novels volume 20
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Walking shadow , Spenser novels volume 21
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Thin air , Spenser novels volume 22
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Chance , Spenser novels volume 23
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24) Small vices
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Spenser novels volume 24
Pub. Date
c2005
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8 CDs (8.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sudden mischief , Spenser novels volume 25
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Hush money , Spenser novels volume 26
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Hugger Mugger , Spenser novels volume 27
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Potshot , Spenser novels volume 28
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29) Widow's walk
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Spenser novels volume 29
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith is found dead with a bullet hole in his head, Nathan's young bride is accused. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty. Spenser hires on to investigate Mary's alibi. The couple was seen fighting at a cocktail party earlier and the prosecution has a witness who says Mary once tried to hire him to kill Nathan. Spenser's leads go nowhere; no one knows a thing. Then a young woman, recently fired from her position at Smith's...
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Back story , Spenser novels volume 30
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33) School days
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Spenser novels volume 33
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Spenser novels volume 34
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April Kyle, the head of an upscale Boston call-girl operation, requests private investigator Spenser's help in preventing a local kingpin from seizing control of her enterprise.
35) Now and then
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Spenser novels volume 35
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Investigating a new client's unfaithful wife, Boston private eye Spenser finds himself in trouble when the case goes terribly wrong and three people wind up dead, a situation that reveals the wife's lover's ties to a terrorist organization.
36) Rough weather
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Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible--the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
37) The professional
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Spenser novels volume 37
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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 the wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
38) Painted ladies
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Spenser novels volume 38
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Called upon by the Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange--money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
39) Sixkill
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When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
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Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie...
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Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
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It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he's confronted in his office by a boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide's mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning Slide...
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Spenser novels volume 43
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"The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing...
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Spenser novels volume 44
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"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
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Spenser novels volume 45
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"Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins"--
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Spenser novels volume 46
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Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M....
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"Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable...
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Spenser novels volume 48
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Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with dreams of making it big as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later, she disappears from her apartment. Her family, former boyfriend, friends--and the police--have no idea where she is and no leads. Leggett's mother hires Spenser to find her, with help of his former apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, now an L.A. private eye. Spenser barely has time to unpack before the trail leads to a powerful movie studio...
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Spenser novels volume 49
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"When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire"--
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Spenser novels volume 50
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds...
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Spenser novels volume 51
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When the beautiful wife of a brilliant scientist, whose groundbreaking work with lithium has made him a billionaire, asks him to look into her husband's past due to his recent paranoia and violent behavior, Spenser makes a discovery that causes him to question his own views on morality.