Spenser · Book 41
Silent Night
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 229
- ISBN-13
- 9780399157882
- Type
- novel
About this book
Silent Night is the last Spenser novel Robert B. Parker left behind: unfinished at his death, it was completed by his longtime literary agent Helen Brann and published in 2013 at 229 pages. It follows Sixkill and, in this catalogue's reading order, precedes Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, the first Spenser novel written by a dedicated continuation author.
Its place in Spenser
Silent Night is book 41 in the Spenser series. It follows Sixkill. It is followed by Robert B. Parker's Lullaby. 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 9780399157882