Chasing the Bear
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 169
- ISBN-13
- 9780399247767
- Type
- companion
About this book
Chasing the Bear is a YA prequel to the Spenser series, tracking the character's teenage years rather than continuing the main numbered sequence. Written by Robert B. Parker and published in 2009, it's placed here between Rough Weather and The Professional in this catalogue's reading order.
Key facts about Chasing the Bear
Chasing the Bear is a companion book by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2009. It runs to 169 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Chasing the Bear. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399247767 to find the main one.
Chasing the Bear is book 37 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
Chasing the Bear is book 37 in the Spenser series. It follows Rough Weather. It is followed by The Professional. 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 9781101032831
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399247767
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101032299