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41) Playmates
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 14
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 13
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
Spenser searches for a prostitute who has disappeared while working for the man she loves, and finds himself in the world of high-class prostitutes and their wealthy clients.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[1983]
Description
The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs -- a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon
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Series
Description
Apple Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is very wrong. When fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears, everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Boston PI Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends like bodybuilder Vic Harroway. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking -- except with...
Author
Series
Spencer volume 14
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department believe it was just a simple accident: faulty wiring in a century-old building. But Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze,...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 38
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
52) Valediction
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway
Author
Series
Spencer volume 21
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.
Author
Series
Spencer volume 13
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Nice girls don't. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She's a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she's on her way to trouble. So is Spenser. Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It's not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
Description
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until he...
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Series
Spencer volume 24
Pub. Date
1997
Description
When Spenser is hired to uncover the truth about a coed's murder, he finds twisted cops, spoiled rich kids, and an assassin's bullet.
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Series
Spencer volume 26
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Spenser almost gets himself killed trying to help out friends when he agrees to check out the reasons why Robinson Nevins was denied tenure at the university, while also attempting to come to the aid of K. C. Roth, a stalking victim who finds Spenser very much to her liking.
Author
Series
Spencer volume 19
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.