Spenser · Book 24
Small Vices
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 306
- ISBN-13
- 9781568954660
- Type
- novel
About this book
Small Vices is Robert B. Parker's 24th Spenser novel, published in 1997 at 306 pages. Chance comes before it and Sudden Mischief after, in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
Small Vices is book 24 in the Spenser series. It follows Chance. It is followed by Sudden Mischief. 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 9781568954660
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399142444