Double Deuce
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780425137932
- Type
- novel
About this book
Double Deuce is the 19th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, published in 1992 at 256 pages. It follows Pastime and precedes Paper Doll in the reading order.
Key facts about Double Deuce
Double Deuce is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 1992. It runs to 256 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Double Deuce. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425137932 to find the main one.
Double Deuce is book 19 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
Double Deuce is book 19 in the Spenser series. It follows Pastime. It is followed by Paper Doll. 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 9780816155965
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399137549
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780816155972