Spenser · Book 33

School Days

by Robert B. Parker

Published
1 January 2005
Pages
295
ISBN-13
9780786278725
Type
novel

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About this book

School Days is Robert B. Parker's 33rd Spenser novel, published in 2005 at 295 pages. Cold Service comes before it and Hundred-Dollar Baby after, in the reading order.

Its place in Spenser

School Days is book 33 in the Spenser series. It follows Cold Service. It is followed by Hundred-Dollar Baby. 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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