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.
Key facts about The Godwulf Manuscript
Robert B. Parker wrote The Godwulf Manuscript, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1973. The book has 191 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780736613538 to find the main one.
The Godwulf Manuscript is book 1 of 55 in the Spenser series. The series has 54 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
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