Appaloosa
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN-13
- 9780399152771
- Type
- novel
About this book
Appaloosa (2005) opens Robert B. Parker's only western series at 276 pages, introducing lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch as they take the marshal job in the title town -- the pattern of a lawless settlement and a dangerous local power broker that the whole series, and the later Robert Knott-continued novels, would follow.
Key facts about Appaloosa
Appaloosa is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2005. It runs to 276 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Appaloosa. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399152771 to find the main one.
Appaloosa is book 1 of 10 in the Cole and Hitch series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.
About Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.
Its place in Cole and Hitch
Appaloosa is book 1 in the Cole and Hitch series. It is followed by Resolution. See the full Cole and Hitch reading order.
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are a pair of hired lawmen drifting across the post-Civil War American West, taking on marshal and deputy jobs in whichever town needs order imposed fastest. Robert B. Parker's only western series, it applies the same spare, dialogue-driven style he brought to Spenser to the genre that shaped his prose in the first place — Cole is the quicker gun and the more rigid moral code, narrator Everett Hitch the steadier, more reflective of the two, and their partnership is tested repeatedly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399152771