Spenser · Book 14
Pale Kings and Princes
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780440200048
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1987 at 312 pages, Pale Kings and Princes is the 14th entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after Taming a Sea-Horse and just before Crimson Joy.
Its place in Spenser
Pale Kings and Princes is book 14 in the Spenser series. It follows Taming a Sea-Horse. It is followed by Crimson Joy. 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 9780440200048
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440215844
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789995675042