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.
Key facts about Silent Night
Robert B. Parker wrote Silent Night, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2013. The book has 229 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399157882 to find the main one.
Silent Night is book 41 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. It is also the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file.
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
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