Spenser novels
Author
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A private detective's investigation into the theft of a rare manuscript from a university library brings him face to face with clues to a young man's murder.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 2
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 3
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987, ©1975
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates when the wife of the Boston Red Sox star pitcher is being blackmailed.
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Series
Spenser novels volume 4
Language
English
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The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding...
Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding...
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Series
Spenser novels volume 5
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spenser has gone to London to track down, dead or alive, a bunch of bombers who've killed his client's wife and kids. But there are nine killers to one Spenser.
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Series
Spenser novels volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
274 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 8
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private-eye Spenser is in Hollywood to protect a beautiful reporter investigating corruption and racketeering in the movie industry, and together they search for a murderer in Tinsel Town
9) Ceremony
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 9
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1987], ©1982
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who would beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until...
11)
Valediction , Spenser novels volume 11
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12) A Catskill eagle
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 12
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 13
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
350 p. ; cm.
Language
English
14)
Pale kings and princes , Spenser novels volume 14
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15) Crimson joy
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Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
16) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
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Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
18) Pastime
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 18
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
19) Double deuce
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 24 cm
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.
20) Paper doll
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993.
Physical Desc
464 pages cm.
Language
English
21) Walking shadow
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
22) Thin air
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
23) Chance
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
24) Small vices
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
25) Sudden mischief
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 25
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
26) Hush money
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 26
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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.
27) Hugger mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
28) Potshot
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 28
Language
English
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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...
29) Widow's walk
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 29
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nathan Smith, a prominent local banker and millionaire, is murdered, Spenser is called in to investigate Nathan's young wife, Mary, and as the evidence stacks up against her, Spenser discovers that Mary's mysterious past has put his own life in danger.
30) Back story
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 30
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after an unsolved bank robbery leaves a woman dead, Paul Giacomin, whom Spenser regards like a son, and Daryl Gordon, the son of the robbery victim, turn to Spenser to seek out clues about the crime.
31) Bad business
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 31
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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When Spenser is hired to conduct a surveillance job on an unfaithful husband, he discovers a second investigator, hired by the husband to look after his wife, in a case that embroils him with corporate corruption and murder.
32) Cold service
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Series
Language
English
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When Spenser's closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 34
Language
English
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Description
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 & then
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 35
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Spenser novels volume 36
Language
English
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Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
37) The professional
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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 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
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Spenser novels volume 40
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 41
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 42
Language
English
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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 young 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...
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Series
Spenser novels volume 43
Language
English
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Description
"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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Series
Spenser novels volume 44
Language
English
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"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, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough...
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Series
Spenser novels volume 45
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who's convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and three firefighters was arson.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 46
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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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. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser's card. A self-proclaimed military...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 47
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"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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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with big dreams of making it 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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Series
Spenser novels volume 49
Language
English
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"In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients"--
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie is a college student with a side job working for the iconic private eye, and she dreams...
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English
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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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English
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Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain's beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping...