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.
Key facts about Small Vices
Small Vices is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 306 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Small Vices. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781568954660 to find the main one.
Small Vices is book 24 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
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