Spenser · Book 1
The Godwulf Manuscript
- Published
- 1 January 1973
- Pages
- 191
- ISBN-13
- 9780736613538
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Godwulf Manuscript is the book that started it all: the first entry in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, published in 1973. It's the natural place to begin the series, which went on to run to 55 books across three authors, and is followed here by God Save the Child.
Its place in Spenser
The Godwulf Manuscript is book 1 in the Spenser series. It is followed by God Save the Child. 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 9781410453938
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780736613538