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Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
2) Crimson joy
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder.
4) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.
5) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful woman is kidnaped, leaving PI Spenser of Boston to probe the mysteries of her past. She is Lisa St. Claire, disk jockey and wife of a Boston policeman, a woman with a history of drugs and prostitution. The abductor turns out to be a former Latino lover.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
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 #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser 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 willing to meet death more than halfway.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 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...
8) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Formats
Description
PI Spenser is hired to find the missing husband of a Boston gangster's daughter. The assignment leads him to the underworld in Las Vegas where he realizes the case is not one of young love, but control of the gangland in Boston.
9) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
10) Hush money
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 26
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
PI Spenser investigates charges of discrimination made by a black professor who was denied tenure at a New England university. The professor claims there was a conspiracy to brand him as a homosexual. By the author The Godwulf Manuscript.
11) Potshot
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston P.I. Spenser returns, in the latest from bestselling author Robert Parker, to take on a ruthless local gang in the millionaire's paradise of Potshot, Arizona. Spenser heads west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, to defend the town and its transplanted Los Angeles yuppie residents from a 21st-century posse of desert rats, misfits, drunks and scavengers who are robbing the town blind and threatening residents' newly-discovered sense...
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 9
Publisher
Delacorte Press /S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Spenser tracks down a young high school dropout who has run away from home to a life of prostitution.
13) Walking shadow
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
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.
15) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.
17) Stardust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 13
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Spenser looks for beautiful, blond April Kyle, a hooker hooked on the wrong guy.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law. Other times, to break it. But he lives by his own inviolate rules. And he loves just one woman -- even though she is the one woman he's just lost. So when Susan's desperate letter arrives, Spenser doesn't think twice. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence. And Susan has gotten herself into even bigger trouble. Now Spenser has to free them both ... even if it means breaking his...
20) Shrink rap
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Boston private detective Sunny Randall agrees to protect a touring writer from her abusive ex-husband, but she quickly learns that the stalker in question is much more sophisticated, intelligent, and potentially deadly than most.
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