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Robert B. Parker Bad Business
Putnam Adult 0399151451 / 9780399151453 Hardcover Good
0399151451 Hardcover, Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Bad Business (Spenser)
Berkley 20050301 0425199576 / 9780425199572 MM Very Good
0425199576 From Publishers Weekly Spenser #31 finds the veteran Boston PI tackling corporate crime in a routine yet absorbing outing. As usual, Spenser enters the case at an angle, this time because he's hired by one Marlene Rowley to prove that her husband Trent, CFO of energy firm Kinergy, is cheating on her. Before long the PI learns that marital cheating is all the rage among Kinergy's players, with the hanky-panky orchestrated by radio personality Darrin O'Mara, who runs popular sex seminars on the side. Maybe all that cheating explains why Spenser keeps running into other PIs hired by Kinergy folk, but it doesn't point to why Trent is found shot dead at Kinergy headquarters. Spenser links Kinergy's slick founder/CEO to the sex ring and blackmails him to gain access to Kinergy's records, unveiling a pattern of accounting deceptions that reveal a company about to go under. There's less violence than usual in this Spenser novel but more detecting, which may explain why there's little of the PI's tough sidekick Hawk but much of his psychologist girlfriend Susan, which may not please the many Spenser fans who grew tired years ago of the love banter between the soul mates. The novel ends with suspects crowded into a room to be questioned by Spenser, a classic yet tired climax that is emblematic of the tale: Parker is treading water here, albeit with some flair and a good deal of humor. One suspects that his heart belongs not to this story but to his other book due out this year, in May, the highly anticipated Jackie Robinson novel Double Play. Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist Parker, declared a Grand Master in 2002 by the Mystery Writers of America, delivers another combination of wry satire and sly action in his thirty-first mystery starring Spenser, the Boston private eye. This time he employs to devastating effect one of his signature devices--an observation on how someone dresses or walks into a room, or a few lines of dialogue between the victim and his hero--to fillet the greed and arrogance of corporate types. At novel's outset, Parker indulges in Keystone Kops comedy played out by private eyes. A distraught wife hires him to tail her husband. Surveillance turns complex and comic when Spenser finds that the husband is having his wife watched; an outside party is having both husband and wife watched; and Spenser himself is being tailed. Spenser is soon being watched by the Boston PD, since he is sitting in the lobby when the husband he's following is shot to death in his office. The action takes a more serious turn here, as Spenser is hired by the energy-selling corporation's CEO to investigate the murder. Of course, Spenser uncovers big-time corruption. Longtime love and psychologist Susan Silverman figures in as a commentator on the action. Spenser sidekick Hawk seems more like a vestigial remnant from other books than a realistic character here. Spenser swaggers a bit too much, and the dialogue can get one-two punch formulaic, but even so, Parker still runs at the front of the private-eye pack. Connie Fletcher Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Robert B. Parker Blue Screen
Putnam 0399153519 / 9780399153518 Hardcover Good
0399153519 Possible Ex-Library book with the usual markings. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Blue Screen
Putnam 0399153519 / 9780399153518 Hardcover Very Good
0399153519 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Parker, Robert with Richard Rashke Capitol Hill In Black and White by Parker, Robert with Richard Rashke
New York Dodd, Mead & Company Good
npd., c. 1986, Sixth Printing, black/white bds. w/d.j., 269pp., G(lt.shelf wear, X-Library, d.j. taped to bds.)
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Robert B. Parker Crimson Joy
Delacorte Press 0385296517 / 9780385296519 Hardcover Good
0385296517 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Crimson Joy
Delacorte Press 0385296517 / 9780385296519 Hardcover Good
0385296517 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker High Profile (Jesse Stone)
Putnam Adult 0399154043 / 9780399154041 Hardcover Good
0399154043 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Hundred-Dollar Baby
Putnam Adult 0399153764 / 9780399153761 Hardcover Good
0399153764 Hardcover, Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Hundred-Dollar Baby
Putnam Adult 0399153764 / 9780399153761 Hardcover Good
0399153764 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Hundred-Dollar Baby
Putnam Adult 0399153764 / 9780399153761 Hardcover Good
0399153764 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Robert B. Parker Hush Money
Putnam Adult 0399144587 / 9780399144585 Hardcover Good
0399144587 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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