Crimson Joy
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 292
- ISBN-13
- 9780440203438
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crimson Joy is Robert B. Parker's 15th Spenser novel, published in 1988 at 292 pages. Pale Kings and Princes comes before it and Playmates after, in the reading order.
Key facts about Crimson Joy
Crimson Joy is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 1988. It runs to 292 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Crimson Joy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780440203438 to find the main one.
Crimson Joy is book 15 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
Crimson Joy is book 15 in the Spenser series. It follows Pale Kings and Princes. It is followed by Playmates. 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 9780440203438