- Fiction, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Spenser (Fictitious character)
Spenser tracks down a young high school dropout who has run away from home to a life of prostitution.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Penguin, Dell, G.K. Hall
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440109938
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