Spenser · Book 21
Walking Shadow
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780425147740
- Type
- novel
About this book
Walking Shadow is Robert B. Parker's 21st Spenser novel, published in 1994 at 304 pages. Paper Doll comes before it and Thin Air after, in the reading order.
Its place in Spenser
Walking Shadow is book 21 in the Spenser series. It follows Paper Doll. It is followed by Thin Air. 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 9780140175561
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399139611
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399139208