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Pale Kings and Princes

Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled

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Robert B. Parker
“Ebullient entertainment.”—Time A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line. Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband? Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels “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“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate—[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.”—The New York Times   “They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier.”—People   “Parker has a recorder’s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.”—Los Angeles Times   “A deft storyteller, a master of pace.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer   “Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.”—The Chicago Sun-Times   “[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.”—The New Yorker
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More Details:
Author
Robert B. Parker
Pages
320
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
1988-06-10
ISBN
0440200040 9780440200048

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