- Mystery, Private investigators, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English
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. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
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Classical in form, cool, effortless and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Books on Tape, Deutsch, Eagle Large Print
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736613538
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