- Fiction, Private investigators, Spenser (Fictitious character), Spenser (Fictional character)
Lily Ellsworth the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399153235
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