Spenser · Book 7

Early Autumn

by Robert B. Parker

Published
1 January 1981
Pages
241
ISBN-13
9780307569462
Type
novel

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About this book

Early Autumn is the 7th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, published in 1981 at 241 pages. It follows Looking for Rachel Wallace and precedes A Savage Place in the reading order.

Its place in Spenser

Early Autumn is book 7 in the Spenser series. It follows Looking for Rachel Wallace. It is followed by A Savage Place. 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…

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