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.
Key facts about Pale Kings and Princes
Robert B. Parker wrote Pale Kings and Princes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 312 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780440200048 to find the main one.
Pale Kings and Princes is book 14 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
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