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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists....
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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. And is Marty throwing fast balls, or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past--or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very...
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Spenser novels volume 5
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English
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"Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax."--from NoveList.
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Spenser novels volume 6
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English
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When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head.
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Spenser novels volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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570L
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Spenser is hired to protect a boy, Paul Giacomin, from being kidnapped in a custody quarrel. He ends up taking care of the boy, who is socially immature, having been ignored by his parents, only used as a pawn in their quarrelling. Spenser takes him in and helps him mature through learning to box, exercising, weight-lifting and building a cottage. At the same time, with the help of Hawk, he collects enough information about the parents that they leave...
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Spenser novels volume 8
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English
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"Private-eye Spenser is in Hollywood to protect a beautiful reporter investigating corruption and racketeering in the movie industry, and together they search for a murderer in Tinsel Town."--from NoveList.
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Spenser novels volume 9
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English
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"Boston private eye Spenser's search for a missing high-school girl takes him to Boston's Combat Zone, to high-class, specialty brothels, and back to the straight world whose righteous facade overlap pervasive corruption."--from NoveList.
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Spenser novels volume 10
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English
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"When Spenser is hired to protect a senatorial candidate and his promiscuous wife, he finds himself involved in blackmail and drug dealing in Washington, D.C."--from NoveList.
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Spenser novels volume 11
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English
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The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.
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Spenser novels volume 12
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English
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Spenser loves just one woman, even though she's the one he's just lost. So when her desperate letter arrives, he doesn't think twice. He has to free his best friend from a life sentence, and get Susan out of trouble.
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Spenser novels volume 13
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English
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Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.
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Spenser novel volume 13
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1987, c1986
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English
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"Spenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up dead." --Random House.
18) Crimson joy.
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Spenser novels volume 15
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English
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Spencer is back on his home turf: a Boston of sleaze and surprises, dangerous days and deadly nights. A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't ctch him. called the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves a long-stemmed red rose on each woman he slays, he's terrifying every female who has to go out after dark. But once Spenser joins the chase, the murder's trail turns toward home when a rose is left for Spenser's own Susan Silverman....
19) Playmates
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Spenser novels volume 16
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English
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Spenser, the tough-guy private eye from Boston, investigates Dwayne Woodcook, an arrogant athlete who the directors of Taft U. suspect is shaving points in basketball games.
20) Stardust
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Spenser novels volume 17
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English
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Fifty Minutes is the title of a Hollywood based TV series being shot on location in Boston, but to Spenser it's "Trouble with a capital T". After signing on to protect its glamorous female star Jill Joyce, from an escalating chain of anonymous harassments to find himself saddled with a lot more than he bargained for.
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