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Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the 'hood with a long, long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white coed from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves's former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568954660
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