Pastime
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780425132937
- Type
- novel
About this book
Pastime is Robert B. Parker's 18th Spenser novel, published in 1991 at 352 pages. Stardust comes before it and Double Deuce after, in the reading order.
Key facts about Pastime
Pastime is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 352 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Pastime. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425132937 to find the main one.
Pastime is book 18 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
Pastime is book 18 in the Spenser series. It follows Stardust. It is followed by Double Deuce. 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 9780745174815
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399136283
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399136306