
In The Godwulf Manuscript Parker also introduces a number of continuing character types, Lieutenant Martin Quirk, the best-dressed of Boston's finest, and his sidekick. The Godwulf Manuscript (A Spenser Mystery), Robert B. Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.Houston Chronicle.

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And this early Spenser drinks more, is more casually sexual, and philosophizes less than he will in the forthcoming adventures. New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillersBook 1 in the series.

The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. Parker : 9780440129615 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. The cops were ready to throw the book at the pretty.
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of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries, the recognizably tough, wise-cracking nemesis of crime from the traditions of the detective novel. Parker, 9780440129615, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Spenser had earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he was ready when a Boston university hired him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript, and hardly surprised that his only clue was a radical student with four bullets in his chest. Spenser is a single, emotionally unattached character, who likes to cook and has already developed a self-deprecating sense of himself, but he is without either a Susan Silverman or a Hawk, who both will figure prominently in the later stories. Joe Broz, the Boston Godfather of The Godwulf Manuscript is the first of a series and introduces Parker's series protagonist, Spenser, so in this novel he is not yet the fully-drawn character of the later books. 16, 1973 A missing illuminated manuscript takes private eye Spenser to a Boston campus with familiar extracurricular activities student radicalism, sex and drugs but it is an attractive, flaky gift charged with murder who really gives him something to think about.
