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Robert B Parker
About Robert B Parker
The celebrated private detective and crime novelist Robert B. Parker has died - at the age of 77, "just sitting at his desk" at his home in the Boston area.
The bestselling author carried the private detective genre into a new century, writing about a tough detective named Spencer since 1971.
He is survived by his wife, Joan, and his sons, David, a choreographer, and Daniel, an actor.
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Spenser Series
Back Story £6.99 reissueBad Business £6.99 reissue
Cold Service hb £16.99
Cold Service £6.99 reissue
Dream Girl hb £18.99
Dream Girl £11.99
Dream Girl £6.99
Hugger Mugger £6.99
Hugger Mugger £8.99 due: Oct 2013
Hush Money £6.99
Hush Money £8.99 due: Dec 2013
Now & Then £6.99
Now & Then hb £18.99
Potshot £6.99
School Days hb £16.99
School Days £6.99 reissue
Small Vices £6.99
Small Vices £8.99 due: Oct 2013
Sudden Mischief £6.99 reissue
Widow's Walk £6.99
(other titles not published by No Exit Press)
Chance
Thin Air
Walking Shadow
Paper Doll
Double Deuce
Pastime
Stardust
Playmates
Crimson Joy
Pale Kings and Princes
Taming a Sea-Horse
A Catskill Eagle
Valediction
The Widening Gyre
Ceremony
A Savage Place
Early Autumn
Looking For Rachel Wallace
The Judas Goat
Promised Land
Mortal Stakes
God Save the Child
The Godwulf Manuscript
Jesse Stone Series
Death in Paradise £6.99High Profile hb £18.99
High Profile £6.99
Night Passage £8.99
Sea Change hb £16.99
Sea Change £6.99
Stone Cold £6.99 reissue
Trouble in Paradise £8.99
Sunny Randall Series
Blue Screen £6.99Blue Screen hb £18.99
Family Honor £6.99
Melancholy Baby £6.99
Perish Twice £6.99
Perish Twice £8.99 due: Dec 2013
Shrink Rap £6.99
Spare Change hb £18.99
Spare Change £6.99
Other Titles
Double Play hb £16.99Double Play £6.99
(other titles not published by No Exit Press)
Appaloosa
Gunman's Rhapsody
All Our Yesterdays
A Year at the Races (with Joan Parker)
Perchance to Dream
Poodle Springs ('with' Raymond Chandler)
Love and Glory
Wilderness
Three Weeks in Spring (with Joan Parker)
Training with Weights (with John R. Marsh)
Spenser has been acclaimed as one of the great detective characters on a par with Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer and Parker is happy to acknowledge the debt he owes to the great hardboiled writers of the 20th century.
Over the past decade Parker has developed two other detectives over a series of novels, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall, (the latter apparently inspired by the desire to write a book featuring Helen Hunt in the lead role, a desire that resulted in 'Family Honor'. And of course Parker has produced a massive volume of work away from his key detectives, including the authorised completion of 'Poodle Springs', Chandler's unfinished novel, followed by a sequel in 1991, 'Perchance to Dream'.
Robert B. Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, served then two years with the U.S. Army in Korea., then in 1957 earned his M.A. in literature from Boston University. Between 1957 and 1962 he worked in industry as a technical writer and in advertising business then embarked on an academic career. Parker earned his Ph.D. in literature from Boston University in 1971. His dissertation was entitled "The Violent Hero, Wilderness Heritage and Urban Reality: A Study of the Private Eye in the Novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald." In 1976 Parker became a full professor at Northeastern University of Boston but three years later retired to devote himself entirely to writing. By then he already had published five Spenser novels. In 2002 Parker was awarded the Grand Master Edgar Award for Lifetime Achievement from Mystery Writers of America (an honour shared with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen) but he's not finished yet...
Parker's style is the sort that creates enthusiasts - the Spenser novels in particular manage to stunningly combine a complex of wide ranging literary and cultural allusion with hard-nosed, pared-down prose and plots that rip along. You can be reading a completely satisfying edge-of-the-seat crime novel which at the same time has references to Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, mediaeval courtly love and of course Edmund Spenser. The Spenser novels are also carefully grounded in Boston, providing an cityscape that is as much a character as an atmosphere.
No Exit Press has been publishing Parker's titles in the UK for the last ten years, watching Parker's reputation and readership grow steadily. Listed below are the No Exit titles organised by central detective character:
Related Links
Robert B. Parker's offical website
Spenser Series
Jesse Stone Series
Sunny Randall Series
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