- Fiction, Private investigators, Spenser (Fictitious character), Large type books
Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse who might not be dead after all. A model wife and mother, bludgeoned with a hammer on the streets of Beacon Hill.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Viking, Thorndike Press, F. A. Thorpe
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786200047
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