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A Savage Place

Robert B. Parker

"The best new private eye in fiction since Raymond Chandler." -- Dan Wakefield

"As tough as they come and spiked with a touch of real class." -- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Tough, wisecracking, unafraid, lonely, unexpectedly literate--an many respects the very examplar of the species." -- "The New York Times"

"Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity." -- "Chicago Sun-Times"

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dell
  • Publish Date: Oct 3rd, 1992
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.79in - 4.17in - 0.54in - 0.21lb
  • EAN: 9780440180951
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Hard-BoiledMystery & Detective - Private InvestigatorsThrillers - Crime

About the Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, Parker died in January 2010.

Praise for this book

"The best new private eye in fiction since Raymond Chandler." -- Dan Wakefield

"As tough as they come and spiked with a touch of real class." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Tough, wisecracking, unafraid, lonely, unexpectedly literate--an many respects the very examplar of the species." -- The New York Times

"Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity." -- Chicago Sun-Times