Spenser · Book 13
Taming a Sea-Horse
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 269
- ISBN-13
- 9780670815845
- Type
- novel
About this book
Taming a Sea-Horse is the 13th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, published in 1986 at 269 pages. It follows A Catskill Eagle and precedes Pale Kings and Princes in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
Taming a Sea-Horse is book 13 in the Spenser series. It follows A Catskill Eagle. It is followed by Pale Kings and Princes. 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 9780670815845
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440188414
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385294614