Melancholy Baby
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN-13
- 9780399152184
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2004 at 296 pages, Melancholy Baby is the fourth book in Robert B. Parker's Sunny Randall series. It comes after Shrink Rap and before Blue Screen in the reading order.
Key facts about Melancholy Baby
Melancholy Baby is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2004. It runs to 296 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Melancholy Baby. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399152184 to find the main one.
Melancholy Baby is book 4 of 13 in the Sunny Randall series. The series has 12 published books. However, the series starts with Family Honor (1999).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Spenser, Jesse Stone 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 Sunny Randall
Melancholy Baby is book 4 in the Sunny Randall series. It follows Shrink Rap. It is followed by Blue Screen. See the full Sunny Randall reading order.
Sunny Randall is a Boston private investigator and former cop, a divorced painter with a soft spot for her ex-husband Richie (whose family runs part of Boston's organized crime) and a bull terrier named Rosie who gets nearly as much page time as the human cast. Robert B. Parker created her, reportedly at actress Helen Hunt's suggestion, as a female counterpart to Spenser — sharp-tongued, independent, working the same hard-boiled Boston streets, with her own therapist, her own found family, and her own tangled…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399152184