- Fiction, Private investigators, Spenser (Fictitious character), Fiction in English
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.
FictionPrivate investigatorsSpenser (Fictitious character)Fiction in EnglishMysteryFiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiledSpenser (fictitious character), fictionBoston (mass.), fictionMassachusetts, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralPrivate investigators, fictionLarge type books
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Classical in form, unpretentious, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch, Dell, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307569813
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Spenser (Fictitious character)
- Fiction in English
- Mystery
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Spenser (fictitious character), fiction
- Boston (mass.), fiction
- Massachusetts, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Private investigators, fiction
- Large type books
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