- Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators in fiction, Fiction
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Penguin, Viking, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670825394
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