- Fiction, Private investigators, Spenser (Fictitious character), Sports betting
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 222
- Publisher
- Viking, Putnam, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399134258
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