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Home Spenser Jesse Stone Sunny Randall ... : More about Spenser JESSE STONE With the 1997 release of "Night Passage," Parker took his readers into the world of Jesse Stone, a 34-year-old ex-LA cop who... LINK : More about Stone "Writing Spenser is like drinking cold beer on a hot summer afternoon," RBP in the Boston Globe, 1984. "That's Spenser with an 's,' like the poet." Robert Parker relaxing at Loche Ober in Boston. SUNNY RANDALL Writing a book with the idea of having Helen Hunt play the lead role on the big screen led to the 1999 release of "Family Honor" in which we meet Parker's first female main character Sunny Randall... LINK : More about Randall BURKE Arguably the darkest of Parker's chracters, Burke was introduced to readers this year with the release of "Double Play." Set in 1947, Burke is an ex soldier hired to protect Jackie Robinson... LINK : More about Burke RAYMOND CHANDLER In 1990, the estate of Raymond Chandler authorized the completion of the unfinished novel "Poodle Springs." Robert Parker was the author tapped for the task. Subsequently, Parker released the 1991 sequel "Perchance to Dream." LINK : More about Chandler OTHER WRITINGS Throughout his career, Parker has produced numerous other non-serial fiction. RBP once told me that...

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25. Robert B. Parker, Mystery, Suspense, And Western Writer parker, robert B., Promised Land, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1975. Edgar parker, robert B., All Our Yesterdays, Dell, New York, 1994. http://www.hycyber.com/MYST/parker_robert_b.html

Robert Brown Parker Novels Characters: Spenser, Hawk, Susan Silverman; Jesse Stone (JS); Sunny Randall (SR) Parker, Robert B., Promised Land, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1975. Edgar Ceremony, Dell, New York, 1982. ISBN: 0-440-10993-0 The Widening Gyre, Dell, New York, 1983. ISBN: 0-440-19535-7 Valediction, Dell, New York, 1984. ISBN: 0-440-19247-1 A Catskill Eagle, Dell, New York, 1985. ISBN: 0-440-11132-3 Pale Kings and Princes, Dell, New York, 1987. ISBN: 0-440-20004-0 Crimson Joy, Dell, New York, 1988. ISBN: 0-440-20343-0 Playmates, Berkley, New York, 1989. ISBN: 0-425-12001-5 Stardust, Berkley, New York, 1990. ISBN: 0-425-12723-0 Pastime, Berkley, New York, 1991. ISBN: 0-425-13293-5 Double Deuce, Berkley, New York, 1992. ISBN: 0-425-13793-7 Paper Doll, Putnam, New York, 1993. ISBN: 0-399-13818-8 Paper Doll, Berkley, New York, 1993. ISBN: 0-425-14155-1 Walking Shadow, Putnam, New York, 1994. ISBN: 0-399-13920-6 Thin Air, Berkley, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0-425-15290-1 TV Movie: Thin Air, Chance, Putnam, New York, 1996. ISBN: 0-399- Small Vices

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27. Mystery Ink: Tribute To Robert B. Parker I picked up The Godwulf Manuscript because I recalled TV s Spenser For Hire was based on characters created by robert B. parker. I was most interested in http://www.mysteryinkonline.com/2007/05/tribute_to_robe.html

hostName = '.mysteryinkonline.com'; Crime fiction book reviews, author interviews and more! Features Book Reviews Author Interviews Reference Awards ... Links Staff Editor: David J. Montgomery Contributors: Yvette Banek Rae Helmsworth Maili Montgomery Fiona Walker In 2007 Robert B. Parker was given the Gumshoe Award for Lifetime Achievement. Written by Gerald So Not until the summer of my first year in college did I realize how much reading it would take to be a writer. I picked up The Godwulf Manuscript because I recalled TV's Spenser: For Hire was "based on characters created by Robert B. Parker." I was most interested in reading about Hawk, the amoral enforcer vividly portrayed by Avery Brooks, but by the end of the novel I didn't mind that he hadn't appeared at all. By the end of that summer, I had read the first eighteen Spenser novels at the pace of three-a-week. Parker showed me that a single character could be a thinker, a fighter, a lover, a gourmet cook, and seem no less real. He showed me that the same few words could convey humor, suspense, and literary significance. Born September 17, 1932 and raised in Massachusetts, Robert Brown Parker attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine where he began dating his future wife Joan Hall. Parker served with the U.S. Army in Korea from 1954-56 and worked in tech writing and advertising before completing his Ph.D. in 1970. His dissertation traced the classic hero from the Western frontier to the urban landscapes of Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald.

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29. Robert B Parker Biography And List Of Works - Robert B Parker Books robert B parker Biography robert B. robert B parker Biography and List of Works - robert B parker Books. http://www.biblio.com/authors/22/Robert_B_Parker_Biography.html

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@import url("/includes/styles/mysterynet.css"); Robert B. Parker Author Interview On Writing Mysteries "Five Pages a Day" by Charles L.P. Silet Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker Mystery Books Discuss Robert B. Parker at MysteryNet Discuss Private Investigators at MysteryNet Top Private Eye Movies at MysteryNet The Private Eye in American Cinema Profile at MysteryNet Robert B. Parker's Spenser series is now among the longest running and most successful in history of crime fiction. Of writers working today Parker is also among the most knowledgeable about the history of hard-boiled detective fiction , and his Ph. D. thesis on the American hero includes material on the classic authors Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald. At the request of the Chandler estate Parker completed Poodle Springs, a manuscript left unfinished at the time of Chandler's death, and later he wrote a new Philip Marlowe novel Perchance to Dream a sequel to The Long Goodbye. Last year Robert Parker contributed the introduction and chose the stories for The Best American Mystery Stories , edited by Otto Penzler (Houghton Mifflin). With the publication of

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Spenser Created by Robert B. Parker Love him or hate him, everybody who reads detective fiction seems to have an opinion about Robert B. Parker's immensely popular (and in my estimation, highly influential) series about Boston P.I. SPENSER (no first name). Including more than a few less than affectionate nods from some of his fellow detective fiction writers. Sour grapes? The first four books in the series made a strong impression on those hungry for a successor to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald trinity. The books are certainly strong, if somewhat derivative, particularly of Chandler. Not surprising, though Parker wrote his doctoral dissertation at Boston U. on the three of them. But they're damn good reads, and introduced an intriguing new gumshoe, one whose success and popularity is still reverberating through the genre. Spenser's a real piece of work. A gourmet cook who pumps iron, an ex-boxer who quotes poetry, a sensitive guy who enjoys getting physical. A guy who goes enjoys a fine gourmet meal and a cold mug of beer , preferably in the same place.And he certainly isn't shy about violence. A true romantic who considers himself a thug for hire and whose closest friend

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Robert B. Parker Also known as: Parker Robert B. Oarker Robert B R.B. Parker R0bert B. Parker ... Robert Parker Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Robert B. Parker combine/separate works Cold service 311 copies, 8 reviews School days 292 copies, 4 reviews The Godwulf manuscript 280 copies, 1 review Potshot 276 copies, review Walking shadow 266 copies, review Thin air 262 copies, review Sudden mischief 258 copies, review Back story 256 copies, 2 reviews Small vices 254 copies, review Hush money 253 copies, 2 reviews Pastime 252 copies, review Early autumn : a Spenser novel 251 copies, 1 review Double deuce 250 copies, 1 review Hundred-dollar baby 247 copies, 5 reviews Stardust 240 copies, 2 reviews see all 77 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

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38. The Reading Diary Of John Dupuis: Parker, Robert B. parker, robert B. Potshot. New York Berkley, 2002. 335pp. robert B. parker s Spenser character has always been one of my favourite private eyes. http://jdupuis2.blogspot.com/2006/01/parker-robert-b-potshot-new-york.html

Potshot . New York: Berkley, 2002. 335pp. @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=5412392"); The Reading Diary of John Dupuis About Me Name: John Dupuis Location: Toronto, Ontario View my complete profile Previous Posts Farmer, Philip Jose. To You Scattered Bodies Go. N... Levinson, Paul. Borrowed Tides. New York: Tor, 200... Smith, Marshall. The Straw Men. New York: Jove 20... Deighton, Len. SS-GB. London: Grafton, 1987. 402p... ... Atom Feed Sunday, January 15, 2006 Parker, Robert B. Potshot . New York: Berkley, 2002. 335pp. Robert B. Parker's Spenser character has always been one of my favourite private eyes. It's a popular series and Parker has contributed to it very prolifically, with 33 novels since 1973 and at least one per year since 1981. It's probably unavoidable that such a long series would have its ups and downs, good, bad and indifferent books interspersed over the years. And this is the case, with this series probably a bit harder hit than some. Certainly, it's been a very long time since a truly great one has been published, one to stand with Looking for Rachel Wallace . On the other hand, there has hardly been any true stinkers either, with most being at least readable and entertaining. I think that one of Parker's secrets in this has been to keep the novels short they never have a chance to really get on your nerves before they're done. And certainly, the worst of the Spenser novels have qualities that can annoy. The line between confident and smug; witty and arrogant; thematic and repetitive; loose and pointless plotting is all very thin, one Parker balances on in all the Spensers.

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SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); Biography Author Interview More by Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker The New York Times Book Review Spenser novel, and Death in Paradise , his third Jesse Stone novel. His first western, was published in 2001. Parker's other works include the classic Poodle Springs , a novel completed from an unfinished manuscript begun by the late Raymond Chandler, and Perchance To Dream , the sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep The Boston Globe Born and raised in Massachusetts, Parker attended Colby College in Maine, serves with the Army in Korea, and then completed a Ph.D. in English at Boston University. He married his wife Joan in 1956; they raised two sons, David and Daniel. Together the Parkers founded Pearl Productions, a Boston-based independent film company named after their short-haired pointer, Pearl, who has also been featured in Parker's last few novels. He and Joan now live in the Boston area. Parker began writing his Spenser novels in 1971 while teaching at Boston's Northeastern University. Little did he suspect then that his witty, literate prose and psychological insights would make him keeper-of-the-flame of America's rich tradition of detective fiction. Parker's fictional Spenser inspired the ABC-TV series Spenser: For Hire . More recently, the Spenser novels

40. Robert B(rown) Parker Criticism robert B(rown) parker 1932–. American novelist. parker s crime fiction places him as a prominent contemporary author within the hardboiled tradition of http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/parker-robert-b-rown

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Robert B(rown) Parker Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Robert B(rown) Parker 1932– American novelist. Parker's crime fiction places him as a prominent contemporary author within the hard-boiled tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald. His best known works form a series consisting of nine novels, beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), and featuring Spenser, a tough but compassionate private-eye trained not only in espionage but also in gourmet cooking, physical fitness, and literature. One of Spenser's most endearing qualities is his sometimes self-depreciating but always witty sense of humor. Parker wrote his dissertation on Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald and although he knows the private eye tradition well, his success is largely based on the contemporary tone he maintains while remaining true to the conventions of the genre. Along with the standard element of suspense, Parker's emphasis lies in character development, through dialogue as much as through action, and the incorporation of social themes, most notably the distortion of the American dream. Promised Land (1977), the fourth Spenser novel, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Ironically, some critics feel this is one of his weaker works. For example, David Geherin, who acknowledges Parker's usual strength in characterization and dialogue, finds "an overemphasis on character analysis and an excessive talkiness that upsets the novelistic balance in

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