Spenser · Book 10
The Widening Gyre
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780440195351
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Widening Gyre is the 10th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, published in 1983 at 192 pages. It follows Ceremony and precedes Valediction in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
The Widening Gyre is book 10 in the Spenser series. It follows Ceremony. It is followed by Valediction. 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 9780440195351
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780727842022
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780896215467