Spenser Mystery Series by Robert B. Parker
Spenser Mystery #1
The Godwulf Manuscript
Robert B. Parker
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead.
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Spenser Mystery #2
Spenser Mystery #3
Spenser Mystery #4
Promised Land
Robert B. Parker
Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing."Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eye around today." (The Cincinnati Post)
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Spenser Mystery #5
Spenser Mystery #6
Spenser Mystery #7
Early Autumn
Robert B. Parker
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 life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.
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Spenser Mystery #8
A Savage Place
Robert B. Parker
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life.
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Spenser Mystery #9
Spenser Mystery #11
Spenser Mystery #13
Spenser Mystery #14
Spenser Mystery #15
Spenser Mystery #16
Playmates
Robert B. Parker
Spenser goes back to school--to investigate corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. And if Spenser doesn't watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life...
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Spenser Mystery #17
Stardust
Robert B. Parker
Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of "stage fright."
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Spenser Mystery #18
Spenser Mystery #19
Spenser Mystery #20
Spenser Mystery #21
Spenser Mystery #22
Spenser Mystery #25
Spenser Mystery #26
Spenser Mystery #27
Spenser Mystery #28
Spenser Mystery #29
Spenser Mystery #32
Spenser Mystery #35
Spenser Mystery #38
Spenser Mystery #38
Painted Ladies
Robert B. Parker
Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.
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