Spenser · Book 30
Back Story
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780425194799
- Type
- novel
About this book
Back Story is Robert B. Parker's 30th Spenser novel, published in 2003 at 304 pages. Widow's Walk comes before it and Bad Business after, in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
Back Story is book 30 in the Spenser series. It follows Widow's Walk. It is followed by Bad Business. 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 9780399149771
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786254514
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754093374