‘Will captivate both longtime and soon-to-be-devoted Spenser lovers’ Kirkus Reviews
A local theatre director claims he is being followed. An actor is gunned down onstage. There’s more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic – and private detective Spenser intends to find out exactly what that is…
‘If you’re already a Spenser fan, you’ll like this one. If you’ve never read Robert B. Parker, welcome aboard. After Walking Shadow you’ll have a lot of books to catch up on’ New York Times
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 to indulge himself’ Boston Globe
A local theatre director claims he is being followed. An actor is gunned down onstage. There’s more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic – and private detective Spenser intends to find out exactly what that is…
‘If you’re already a Spenser fan, you’ll like this one. If you’ve never read Robert B. Parker, welcome aboard. After Walking Shadow you’ll have a lot of books to catch up on’ New York Times
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 to indulge himself’ Boston Globe
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Nobody does it better
The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
One of the great series in the history of the detective story
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it
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 to indulge himself
Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction
