Spenser · Book 8
A Savage Place
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780307569981
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1981 at 192 pages, A Savage Place is the 8th entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after Early Autumn and just before Ceremony.
Its place in Spenser
A Savage Place is book 8 in the Spenser series. It follows Early Autumn. It is followed by Ceremony. 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 9780440180951
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307569981
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140073997