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.
Key facts about Back Story
Back Story is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2003. It runs to 304 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Back Story. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425194799 to find the main one.
Back Story is book 30 of 55 in the Spenser series. The series has 54 published books. However, the series starts with The Godwulf Manuscript (1973).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall and Cole and Hitch 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 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