Spenser · Book 5

The Judas Goat

Published
1 January 1978
Pages
203
ISBN-13
9780893402204
Type
novel
Cover of The Judas Goat

About this book

Published in 1978 at 203 pages, The Judas Goat is the 5th entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after Promised Land and just before Looking for Rachel Wallace.

Key facts about The Judas Goat

The Judas Goat is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 1978. It runs to 203 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Judas Goat. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780893402204 to find the main one.

The Judas Goat is book 5 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. 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 Judas Goat is book 5 in the Spenser series. It follows Promised Land. It is followed by Looking for Rachel Wallace. 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…

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