Spenser · Book 12
A Catskill Eagle
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN-13
- 9780670808724
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Catskill Eagle is Robert B. Parker's 12th Spenser novel, published in 1985 at 311 pages. Valediction comes before it and Taming a Sea-Horse after, in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
A Catskill Eagle is book 12 in the Spenser series. It follows Valediction. It is followed by Taming a Sea-Horse. See the full Spenser reading order.
Spenser is a Boston private investigator -- ex-boxer, Korean War veteran, gourmet cook, wisecracking romantic -- whose one-name toughness (never explained beyond a nod to the Elizabethan poet) masks a code of honor as rigid as any knight's. Robert B. Parker launched the series in 1973 with The Godwulf Manuscript and spent nearly four decades refining a template that became the genre standard: terse, dialogue-driven prose, a hero who talks his way through trouble as often as he fights his way out, and a real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780670808724
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385293853
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140084757