Spenser · Book 6

Looking for Rachel Wallace

by Robert B. Parker

Published
1 January 1980
Pages
219
ISBN-13
9780440047643
Type
novel

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About this book

Looking for Rachel Wallace is Robert B. Parker's 6th Spenser novel, published in 1980 at 219 pages. The Judas Goat comes before it and Early Autumn after, in the reading order.

Its place in Spenser

Looking for Rachel Wallace is book 6 in the Spenser series. It follows The Judas Goat. It is followed by Early Autumn. 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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